These photos of empty stores reveal why people are going crazy over a wild Mattress Firm conspiracy theory

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• On Tuesday, a comment on Reddit that suggested Mattress Firm was laundering money went viral - it has since been removed.
• Reddit users said that the company was overstored in the US, given that it stocks a product that people typically buy every seven to 10 years, and suggested that this was a sign of something more dubious. 
• These photos show why this wild conspiracy theory even came into question.

Mattress Firm stores are everywhere - and a wacky conspiracy theory suggests a crazy reason why. 

A wild conspiracy theory has been making the rounds on the internet after a Reddit thread, which claimed that the company was money laundering, went viral. The comment was subsequently deleted, The Next Web reported.

"Mattress Firm is some sort of giant money laundering scheme," a Reddit user wrote, adding: "I remember seeing 4 mattress firms all on each corner of an intersection once, and there is no way there is such a demand for mattresses."

Mattress Firm is the largest specialty retailer in the US. It has 3,500 stores in total. This number jumped in 2015 when it acquired the second largest chain, Sleepy's.

These photos reveal why this conspiracy theory came into question:

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