Corporate autopsies on the brands you trust. Who bought them, who gutted them, and what's still worth buying.
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In 1980 it was one store in Austin, and when a flood wiped it out the next spring, the customers and the unpaid staff showed up with mops and brought it back. The founder spent decades turning that day into a philosophy: take care of your workers and your community, and the profits follow. Then Amazon paid $13.7 billion, pulled the buying into headquarters and started scoring all 510 stores for unionization risk.
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