July 18, 2019
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A year after shutting all its U.S. stores, Toys R Us is making a comeback. The international chain, which filed for bankruptcy in 2017, is opening two mall stores this holiday season and bringing back its website. But don’t expect ...
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November 20, 2018
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Two private equity owners of the Toys R Us chain have set up a fund for thousands of former workers left jobless and without severance.
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March 22, 2018
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Toy company executive Isaac Larian and other investors have pledged a total of $200 million and hope to raise four times that amount in crowdfunding in a bid to save potentially more than half of the 735 Toys R Us ...
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March 15, 2018
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For anyone who grew up in the ’70s or ’80s, Toys R Us was a sort of a magic kingdom, like a candy store in its powers to enchant. So many aisles of delightful things to play with. You could ...
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January 24, 2018
Comments Off on Toys R Us, hobbled by competition, will shutter 180 stores
Toys R Us, squeezed by Amazon.com and huge chains like Walmart, will close 180 stores, or about 20 percent of its U.S. locations, within months. One Maryland store, in Clinton, is among those shutting its doors. Hobbled by $5 billion ...
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January 9, 2015
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(Bloomberg) Toys “R” Us Inc., the closely held retailer that canceled its initial public offering in 2013, posted a decline in holiday sales for at least the third year in a row. Same-store sales for the nine weeks through Jan. ...
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March 17, 2013
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The case of a deaf woman who allegedly was forced to bring her own interpreter to a job interview at Toys “R” Us in Columbia was so egregious that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission felt compelled to sue the retailer — something it does in roughly 1 percent of the complaints it receives each year, according to a spokeswoman.
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Read More »WAYNE, N.J. — Toys R Us said Monday that it plans to launch its own tablet computer aimed at children called Tabeo on Oct. 21, a low-priced entry into the increasingly crowded tablet business. The news comes ahead of the ...
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Read More »WAYNE, N.J. — Toys R Us is making it easier for shoppers to use its layaway program ahead of the crucial holiday season, waiving its service fee and minimum purchase requirement beginning Tuesday. As brick-and-mortar stores face increasingly tough competition ...
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March 22, 2012
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The Asian and international market Lotte Plaza will soon help launch a multi-million dollar renovation of a former Toys R Us store in the One Mile West Shopping Center in Catonsville. The result will be a new 46,000-square-foot Lotte Plaza ...
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