Word: petco
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...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...
...assistant manager of Petco on 119 First St. reported that a man placed a parakeet in his pocket. When the man saw he had been observed, he restored the parakeet to a shelf and left the store...