About 10% of the merchandise is mark-down goods from the full-line stores while the remaining 90% is bought specifically for the Rack store including some vendor closeouts.

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Hubbard left his distinctive mark on a workshop of handmade goods called the Roycrofters, a throwback to medieval guilds and reaction against the mechanization of the industrial age.

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