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  • Canada

Toys R Us Canada Owners Opening “Rooms + Spaces” Stores – Taking Over Bed, Bath & Beyond Locations

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on May 15, 2023May 15, 2023

Things are happening in Canada. The same investment company, Putman Investments, which purchased Toys R Us Canada,…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Christmas Tree Shops File for Bankruptcy

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on May 8, 2023May 8, 2023

And yet another retailer files for bankruptcy. Christmas Tree Shops did so on Friday, filing…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Barnes & Noble Opening 30 New Stores – Most in a Decade

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on April 27, 2023April 27, 2023

Barnes & Noble is back. After several years of declining sales and rising costs, the…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Bye-Bye, “Buy Buy BABY”

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on April 24, 2023April 24, 2023

Unfortunately, we may be losing another specialty chain. “buy buy BABY,” owned by “Bed Bath…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Which Retailers Are Aggressively Opening New Stores?

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on March 18, 2023March 22, 2023

If investing in new locations is an indicator of success, then Dollar General, Dollar Tree,…

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  • Posts by Utku Tansel

Hamleys Gears Up to Build on “Experiential Retail”

  • by Utku Tansel
  • Posted on January 25, 2023January 25, 2023

Utku Tansel LLB, MBA http://www.linkedin.com/in/utku-tansel-llb-mba-98231636 Utku has 18 years of success in driving global thought leadership,…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Walmart, Amazon, and Target Are Not Enough. Shoppers Want More Bricks-and-Mortar Retail Options

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on November 9, 2022November 9, 2022

Some of us have been around long enough to remember when the marketplace offered a…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Will There Be a Resurgence in Department Stores Carrying Toys?

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on September 16, 2022September 21, 2022

Those of us who have been living in this world for a while can recall…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Newsweek’s “America’s Best Retailers 2022” – What toy and toy related retailers made the list

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on August 31, 2022August 31, 2022

Newsweek published its “America’s Best Retailers 2022.” The magazine commissioned Statista to do a poll…

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  • Economy

Is Retail In Trouble? It’s an emotional question.

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on August 4, 2022August 4, 2022

The more the press talks about recession, the more people who watch and read media…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Canadian Retailer, Showcase, Is Opening 27 U.S. Stores this Summer – My Interview with CEO, Samir Kulkarni

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on June 15, 2022June 15, 2022

Samir Kulkarni is CEO and owner of Showcase, a national retailer and “Home of the Hottest…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

A Private Equity Firm Wants to Buy Kohls – It’s Toys R Us All Over Again

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on June 10, 2022June 10, 2022

Oh Lord, here we go again. A private equity company is seeking to buy Kohl’s…

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  • Coronavirus

Temporary Retail Store Closings; What Will Be the Long-Term Impact?

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on March 18, 2020December 22, 2020

It has been understandable yet unsettling to see the number of bricks and mortar temporary…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

A Special Report from China on the Coronavirus and Its Impact on Toy Manufacturing and Retailing

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on March 6, 2020June 18, 2020

There has been no reported outbreak in the factories, and there has been, in the…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

“The State of Consumer Behavior 2020” – Raydiant

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on February 11, 2020

A very interesting and, I think, an important new survey, has been released by digital…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Dazed and Confused in a Retail Store; Is it a Good or Bad Experience?

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on January 22, 2020

Confusing but clean, mysterious but not scary, haphazard but not disorganized; those may well be…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Target Disappoints in 2019; Did the Toys R Us Chickens Come Home to Roost

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on January 16, 2020

It is the absence of the sheer variety of toys that Toys R Us offered…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Retail in the 2020’s, a Look Ahead

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on January 15, 2020

The future of bricks and mortar retailing is going to be one in which their…

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