If I’ve told my wife once, I’ve told her a hundred times. These outlet malls don’t actually offer discount prices.
Some just don’t take this realization as well as others.
You are correct … I worked at Nike and they had lower quality at the outlet malls.
Ahh, the good old days when “outlet stores” were truly cheaper. In high school (late ‘60s), there was an alpaca sweater outlet store near my house. Mostly seconds, but man the deals...$10-15 for v-necks. Still have one or two around. Then there was the hugely popular Creighton Shirt Outlet in Reidsville, NC..1½ hours drive....early ‘70s. Seconds again...but they were making these shirts in the building NEXT DOOR! Cheap...I’d buy 8-10 a trip.