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In reply to the discussion: Toys R US Files for Bankruptcy, Crushed by Online Competition [View all]JHB
(37,157 posts)10. Exactly. Headline should read "...crushed by management financial games"
I'd love to see a study about how much job and wage loss that is written off as due to automation and offshoring has actually been due to (or triggered by) financial games by the people in control of the companies.
When this sort of thing comes up it's always instructive to break out the 1991 Philadelphia Inquirer series by Bartlett and Steele:
http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/inq_HT_WhatWentWrong1991.html
DAY 1
How game was rigged against middle class
After three decades, American worker loses out to Mexico
Who - and how many - in America's middle class
DAY 2
The lucrative business of bankruptcy
DAY 3
Big business hits the jackpot with billions in tax breaks
DAY 4
Why the world is closing in on the U.S. economy
DAY 5
The high cost of deregulation: Joblessness, bankruptcy, debt
DAY 6
For millions in U.S., a harsh reality: It's not safe to get sick
How death came to a once-prosperous discount-store chain
DAY 7
Raiders work their wizardry on an all-American company
DAY 8
When you retire, will there be a pension waiting?
Workers saving for their retirement lose on junk bonds
DAY 9
How special-interest groups have their way with Congress
America's two-class tax system
How game was rigged against middle class
After three decades, American worker loses out to Mexico
Who - and how many - in America's middle class
DAY 2
The lucrative business of bankruptcy
DAY 3
Big business hits the jackpot with billions in tax breaks
DAY 4
Why the world is closing in on the U.S. economy
DAY 5
The high cost of deregulation: Joblessness, bankruptcy, debt
DAY 6
For millions in U.S., a harsh reality: It's not safe to get sick
How death came to a once-prosperous discount-store chain
DAY 7
Raiders work their wizardry on an all-American company
DAY 8
When you retire, will there be a pension waiting?
Workers saving for their retirement lose on junk bonds
DAY 9
How special-interest groups have their way with Congress
America's two-class tax system
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Just a bit of karma as T'R'Us move into our small local market facilitated the demise of my old
Purveyor
Sep 2017
#2
It sounds to me that the same things killing ToysR'Us are the same things that killed your store.
RhodeIslandOne
Sep 2017
#3
No, its only killing those that either refuse or are to slow to adapt but those that do
cstanleytech
Sep 2017
#4
not slow to adapt. it was raped by Bain Capital. who do we know associatied with Bain? nt
msongs
Sep 2017
#5
Our grandchildren were not that pleased to get T r U gift cards last Christmas.
Hortensis
Sep 2017
#26
This is NOT the frault of Amazon-- it is retaiiers being run by money guys, not retail guys...
TreasonousBastard
Sep 2017
#6
that's why they need to make their stores appealing to make people(specifically kids)
JI7
Sep 2017
#24
This has become a system where Private Equity gets paid while public investors are bagholders
bucolic_frolic
Sep 2017
#9
That's ironic, becasue Wikipedia says, "At its peak, Toys "R" Us was considered a classic example
Nitram
Sep 2017
#14
When I was ten years old, in 1962, my Mom took me to the new store and let me...
Nitram
Sep 2017
#13