Paul Hays says...

I was killing time before my movie started this evening by doing a little
window shopping and saw something new: fake "thinply" edgebanding on retail
shelving!

In otherwords, plastic edgebanding with thinply-like banding and color was
added to retail shelving to get that industrial, avant guard look. Funny
that plywood is considered a luxury material now!

It is a luxury material. Crap quality furniture doesn't even use good
fiberboard. It's more like dehydrated oatmeal than MDF.