Stutz

One night in hospital, in 2023, having been admitted with PTSD, I watched a documentary in which the American psychotherapist, Phil Stutz, spoke of three fundamental truths to be accepted by people struggling with mental health problems: that life can be full of pain, full of change, and that living with these things needs constant work.

“Throughout the food supply chain, we've got these market power bottlenecks,” Randy Stutz, president of the American Antitrust Institute, told Salon.

“There's some basic red flags in terms of economic indicators that strongly suggest there's serious market power problems,” Stutz told Salon.

“Allowing a merger like that to go through really threatens to lock in and entrench a very concentrated market structure,” Stutz told Salon.

She nimbly braids together the stories of Hortense Odlum of Bonwit, which moved locations but basically disappeared by 2000; Geraldine Stutz of Henri Bendel, shuttered since 2019; and Dorothy Shaver of Lord & Taylor, which after slow decline was delivered a definitive death blow by the pandemic.