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TIL in 2018, footwear retailer Payless set up a fake luxury store. Their aim was to see if people would be willing to pay luxury prices for their discount footwear. It succeeded, with shoppers agreeing to pay upto about $600 for footwear that would typically cost between $19.99 and $39.99.

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