PARIS — Tati is a ghost of what it once was, and soon it won’t even be that. Shelves that were crammed with dish-scrubbers and brassieres for $1.50 and plaster figurines of smiling bunnies are now bare. Exits are still numbered — how else to find your way out through the crowds — but the aisles are empty. Tati is a victim of Covid-19, its latest owners say, and sharply declining sales. But the trends that have killed it go back much further.

Source: International New York Times July 20, 2020 13:18 UTC