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...whom have kids of their own. Founded by Charles Lazarus in 1957, Toys "R" Us was the original "category killer"--industry jargon for a chain of large stores that offered low prices on almost every product and brand in its category and killed competing local retailers. (Think Home Depot or Petco.) Lazarus transformed an industry once dominated by mom-and-pop toy stores, eventually launching 1,462 Toys "R" Us outlets and gaining a 25% market share by 1990, the company's peak year...
Most American consumers know better than to buy ivory, or ashtrays made from gorilla paws, or tuna caught in nets that are not "dolphin free." But when they stop by Kinko's for stationery or Home Depot for plywood, will they ask themselves, "Is this old-growth free...
This week, in 70 cities from Anchorage, Alaska, to Athens, Ga., environmentalists plan to stage a "Day of Action" by picketing Home Depot, the mammoth building-supply chain (sales last year: $24 billion). Customers will be offered "rain forest tours" through the store, spotlighting products made with trees from pristine, old-growth forests around the world: dowels and tool handles of ramin wood from Southeast Asia, doors of Amazon mahogany, cedar shingles and Douglas fir lumber from the temperate rain forests of North America, lauan plywood from the Philippines and Indonesia...
Americans love to do things for themselves. It's cheaper, faster and more satisfying. Just as homeowners in the 1980s learned to go to Home Depot, individual investors in the '90s have learned that they can get online almost all the information that used to be available only to the high rollers. And small investors can now trade for the same low commissions that giant institutions get--$8 for 100 shares, vs. the $100 or more that Merrill and other full-service brokers typically charge...
...Storage Depot, near CambridgesideGalleria, rents a four by five by eight-foot spacefor $67.50 per month...