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Toys R Us

Toys ‘R’ Us Goes Bankrupt; Debt, the Internet, Forests and Trees; Twitter: The Good and the Bad

Posted onWednesday, September 20, 2017Saturday, March 24, 2018 Author by Ben Thompson

Toys ‘R’ Us went bankrupt because of debt, not e-commerce; that said, debt was a problem because private equity didn’t consider e-commerce. Then, Twitter gives good news and bad news.

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