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I always assumed that the rug shops were for money laundering.

Palo Alto may buy a lot of rugs, but it seems like one shop should be sufficient to supply the entire city.

Though now I am imagining Palo Alto rolling out its new, grand vision for commerce: to become the Rug Shop Capital of the Greater Bay Area. In cooperation with Stanford Business School's new program in Rug Store Management, and the department of Rug and Textile Studies.

Rug stores also seem to be perpetually "going out of business", but I don't know if this is actually the case and why.