My mom used to work holidays at Toy's R Us to bring in some extra money during Christmas. When she would pick me up from school, she would always have like a $1 small toy item(this was kindergarten) ...I was in heaven. I remember going into the Lansing store and going down the 1st aisle, the board games. Just massive as I recall. I loved checking out what new board games were out there.

The Sears in Woodfield is up to something, at least with their service department. Probably close to 100 trucks or so(Sears branded service vehicles) in the lot. Maybe they are spinning off their service department into a new model? Maybe they are there to be sold? Maybe it's a huge meth operation?

THANK YOU MR SCORPIO!!!

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they've posted profits MANY quarters lately.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

yup. fake news again

Yeah and most losses now are for investments in tech not related to retail. Toys r us isn't building a Netflix like video service or working on drone delivery networks.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

they've turned a profit the last 8 quarters, have they not?

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

Amazon made $921M year to date, while producing nearly $18B in operating cash flow:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872417000100/amzn-20170630x10q.htm#s6AB5B930E50457519F69470DD6F05004

They made $2.4B during 2016. The company has taken a long term focus and invested heavily (to BR's point) in a whole range of other businesses. What was once just an online retail operation has sprouted into many other businesses. Most notably is Amazon Web Services, which is a monster business on its own.

Edit: The $18B in operating cash flow is a 12 month look back. Amazon is not following typical 10-Q accounting practices, and they are providing a full 12 month statement in their mid year quarterly report. First time I have ever seen a company do that.....

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Hawaii (fuck) You

all they care about is cash flow, they bank on the future. Which is great if you always guess right. It's kinda like drafting. But if you guess wrong successively, it could go bad fast.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

I saw 11.5B in sales last year, so not growing, but not that far in the shitter absent the debt.

Sad they are closing all 800 stores. Another big retailer gone. Whomever had Sears or JC Penny's in their retailer death pool just lost.

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Good. I worked there one Kwanzaa season. Just awful. I think I have done four readings in my life, and this experience made the best one, though.

what ?

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I wrote a piece about it and read the piece at a reading. Many laughs were shared.

Sears appliance-service arm is keeping them afloat I think. Of course maybe they just spin that off. Sucks for Toys R Us..should have been able to at least contract and survive, but some bad mgmt decisions set in stone years ago.

The toy section at Walmart/Target can't compete with a full Toys R Us offering..they just don't have enough room in that section of the store, so there was still a unique aspect to the business.

Must be nice to be engage in classism all day long.

their last day today.

was part of American life for generations.

that giraffe was a great mascot too.

really sad.

last message : http://www.toysrus.com/

They even whacked the mascot
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/07/01 ... trage.html

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Truly one of the saddest photos I’ve seen .

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^ Accurate

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oh no retail monstrosity that put hundreds of small businesses out has been devoured itself my poor innocent child hood.

we didn't have small toy shops around here really. unless you count Kaybee or however it was spelled at the mall.

i have fond memories of toys r us. they had that crows nest by the returns area. i thought the king of the world must sit up there. all the video games systems in the glass case. you had to take a slip up to the register for video games and then go to a seperate place to pick up your game. loved that place.

We do a toy drive here at work each year around Christmas, and even as an adult I got excited about going to toys r us to pick out a bunch of toys.

The long term viability of toys r us was in doubt due to online retailing (obviously), but leverage killed this company, not online retailing.

Is that lev ridge or lee ver age

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

right next door to our empty toysrus, best buy just announced it was closing its store on the IL side of the QCA. who can blame them.