Sports Authority fucked me over with a $60 gift card.

that's why you have so many kids...

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GO BEARS!!!

This sucks. A Saturday or Sunday trip to Toys R Us can occupy a nice chunk of your day with young kids. Give them $10 to spend and watch them march up and down every aisle trying to pick out $79.99 toys.

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McDade's and Service Merchandise are still open though, right?

Well there's your problem, the kids are running the damn store.

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Let's not bury the real cause and effect here.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Nah, Ben Franklin .... the guy's house, not the five-and-dime chain.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

throw in all the deals they give you with like kohls kash or whatever and its almost giving it away. as far as i can tell toysrus never had any of these kind of programs.

when we were kids, toys r us trips where pretty special. that long hallway when you go in, all the game systems to demo. taking your slip up to that window where there were stacks and stacks of gaming systems.

i have gone to ours like 2 or 3 times in the last ten years. it had the feel of a kmart and i was the only customer in there outside of people returning things.

Man, I remember walking into that place as a kid like it was Mecca.

That was like reward for being dragged around town as my mom ran errands fr eternity. The star wars aisle was overwhelming. I always figured my mom went nuts when my brother and I were digging through the figures looking for the one we wanted or the one our friend wanted for his birthday. She told me the other day when I told her that's what my boys were into that she was happy because she loved buying those toys for us as kids. I should have pushed my luck harder.

The one in Moline is s ghost town when I've been. But it's been years since I wandered those aisles.

i don't know if they all had this but the one in moline had this platform that was really high right by the customer service as you walked in where like someone would sit high up there probably making sure workers were working and kids weren't ganking shit. i always thought that person had the greatest job of all time being king of toysrus and gazing upon their toy kingdom.

I bought a plush manatee for my daughter there in 2003. I'm thinking that was my last purchase there. I guess I'm to blame.

I could not, for the life of me figure out how that chain stayed in business. They were always incredibly overpriced.

And Kohl's is great but I'd say TJ Maxx has cheaper clothes....

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Supposedly the stores are almost all profitable. It's just they have a lot of debt from when Bain Capital bought them.

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if they are profitable why can't they pay down their debt?

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I've got a $17 gift card I need to use here.

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The stores are profitable but not enough to pay off all the interest on the debt.

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they need some fairy godmother to buy out all the debt so they can earn 1% return on those profitable stores.

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I am no finance guy but having cash flow problems in order to buy inventory for their biggest selling season is not an indicator of great profitability.

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The company is not profitable. They have major debt issues. The stores operate at about $500 million in profit. The interest payments on the debt are higher than that after Bain Capital took them over with a debt-heavy deal about 10 years ago.

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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!

in 2008 they had $13billion in sales. it is was $2billion last year. wow!

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Thanks, Romney!

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Rafalca and car elevators don't pay for themselves Mr. Judgmental!

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

I've got 50 books filled with S & H Green Stamps to cash in one of these days...

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

damn that was quick

on a side note, sears is still a great store. nobody in there, everything on sale, and they still have bears shirts

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im shocked they have been in debt this long

they should have modernized their business model 20 years ago, when the internet was starting to pop.

they didn't, so they die.

not sad.

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Everyone says this kind of thing but ignores the fact that Amazon doesn't usually post any quarterly profits. Hard to compete with that model.

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