Big Mattress Is Watching — The Consolidation of an Industry and What It Costs the Rest of Us
Posted by Angela Owen on 21st Jul 2026
It was 1989 and I was a young college student who had just landed an entry-level position in the marketing department at Wells Fargo Bank headquarters in San Francisco. The early years of massive mergers and acquisitions were just beginning for America’s largest banks. New waves of deregulation had opened the door to interstate banking, and our little marketing department was suddenly very b
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