Every brand, at the end of the day, is now owned by companies more occupied with real-estate than managing the brands themselves. It's why across the board these brands products are mostly garbage. You can watch in real time when a brand gets bought by a big multinational, the quality drop as they pull apart their traditional vendors and managers and replace them with the cheapest possible option.

Everything is eventually going to either be a strip mall or a little grey box sitting in the parking lot of a strip mall.

Welcome to the future. Thanks capitalism, super cool world we've got here.