The retail industry has split in recent decades: Lower-end stores focused on cost-savings, such as Walmart, have done particularly well. But so have luxury brands as shoppers with means have been able ...
Nicknaming it the “Wirkin” bag – a portmanteau of “Walmart” and “Birkin” that also evokes “working class” – TikTok users have championed the bag as a symbol of working- and middle-class solidarity.