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[โ€“] Idefinitelydonotknow@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Banana Republic is a term coined for all the countries where this company operated.

[โ€“] JGrffn@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

As someone who lives in a banana republic that now has banana republic stores in its malls, this is a perplexing and sort of insulting end result, and I don't understand how the name of the store ever took off