• Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
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    it’s just like when Toys R Us went under, all the comments in chats and message boards were pissed that it went out of business (aside from the scummy buyouts) because they had so much fun going there and running around looking at the toys, then when they got older took their kids to run around, look at toys but not buy anything. MFer the reason they went out of business is because you never bought anything!

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      2 days ago

      Bro - they went out of business because A) amazon stole their consumer base and B) Mitt Romney’s vultures did a leveraged buyout where they made Toys R Us pay all of the debt service while he looted anything not bolted down and sold all of the real estate to themselves then leased it back to TRU at inflated no-bid prices.

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        a leveraged buyout

        Yeah, and if they had a healthy, growing cash flow via solid sales over a span of several decades then they would have been the ones buying out competitors.

        amazon stole their consumer base

        Are you also going to blame mom & pop shops for failing to price-match when walmart moves in a block away?