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Toys R Us to Add Flagship Stores and Launch Travel Industry Locations
Retail // September 29, 2023

Toys R Us is set to undergo a major expansion. Its parent company, WHP Global, has announced a partnership with Go! Retail Group to roll out Toys R Us flagship stores nationwide in the U.S. starting in 2024, the companies said in a Friday (Sept. 29) press release. Additionally, WHP...

Macy’s Adding 20 Claire’s Store-in-Store Locations
Retail // November 29, 2022

Youth fashion brand Claire’s and Macy’s are partnering to create 20 new store-in-store locations. According to a Tuesday (Nov. 29) company press release, the new shops are set to open this month in select department store locations and will feature hair accessories, jewelry, cosmetics and...

3 Ways Retailers Just Proved That Innovation and Change Are Still Alive
Retail // November 19, 2022

For 60 years, Walmart’s stores have dotted the American landscape, its cavernous Supercenters serving as the one-stop-shop of choice for value-minded consumers, often in rural or modest communities that offered few other choices. Fast forward to the present, and a year of rising prices fueled...

Macy’s CEO: ‘We’re a Financially Strong, More Modern Department Store’
Retail // November 17, 2022

Drawing on a 40-year purview as a Macy’s employee that began as a trainee in 1983 and has seen him in the role of chairman and CEO for the past six, Jeff Gennette has seen more than his shares of ups and downs atop one...

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Amazon’s New Toy Story

July 06, 2018
We admit, it may seem a strange time to declare toys sizzling — since, about a week ago, the nation’s largest purveyor of toys, Toys R Us, switched off the lights and closed its doors for the last time at locations nationwide. Geoffrey the Giraffe is, sadly, no more. Though millennial parents were hit with […]

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Toys R Us to Add Flagship Stores and Launch Travel Industry Locations

September 29, 2023
Toys R Us is set to undergo a major expansion. Its parent company, WHP Global, has announced a partnership with Go! Retail Group to roll out Toys R Us flagship stores nationwide in the U.S. starting in 2024, the companies said in a Friday (Sept. 29) press release. Additionally, WHP Global plans to bring Toys R Us to the travel […]

Macy’s Adding 20 Claire’s Store-in-Store Locations

November 29, 2022
Youth fashion brand Claire’s and Macy’s are partnering to create 20 new store-in-store locations. According to a Tuesday (Nov. 29) company press release, the new shops are set to open...

Macy’s to Bring Toys R Us to All Stores

July 18, 2022
Buoyed by a successful relaunch of nostalgic toy store brand Toys R Us online in the past year, Macy’s said Monday (July 18) it is bringing Toys R Us to...

Toys R Us Opening American Dream Mall Store Before Christmas

December 01, 2021
Toys R Us announced on Wednesday (Dec. 1) that it’s opening a flagship store with a two-story slide, ice cream parlor and more than 10,000 toys in New Jersey’s American...