[FrozenTuna]

Ok, but what about mattress stores? Are you telling me they aren't for money laundering?

[sp332]

Mattress Firm's parent company was up to some sketchy stuff. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-steinhoff-intlnl-ceo/stei... The CEO resigned.

[vageli]

> Ok, but what about mattress stores? Are you telling me they aren't for money laundering?

Margins are insanely high on mattresses. Why the connection to money laundering?

[velp]

It's become a meme, likely due to the clusters of mattress stores that seem to pop up despite zero customers.

[jonny_eh]

Planet Money covered that: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/12/13/676538506/why-...