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Chapter 12 · A book in progress by Dan Sfera

The Mall Monopoly (Lids)

The chain that bet a store could survive on hats alone, and was right.


Lids built a national footprint on the simple idea that a shop could live on headwear, and its collector pivot reshaped the modern drop. A chapter on distribution, scale, and the mall hat wall.

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