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...Market is clear. With nondiscretionary products like toys more vulnerable to consumer-spending swings, Toys "R" Us needs to give parents more reasons to shop at its stores. "Certainly, we believe this is right for the times, or we wouldn't be rolling it out," says Gerald Storch, chairman and CEO of Toys "R" Us, which was taken private, for $6.6 billion, in 2005. "This direction is very consistent with economic trends, very consistent with the overall recessionary environment...
...Storch is quick to point out that while the economy has heightened the urgency of the "R" Market initiative, the company has been preparing for its launch for the past few years. He emphasizes that Toys "R" Us isn't shifting its focus from the fun stuff. The percentage of square footage dedicated to the "R" Markets will be in the "single digits," according to Storch. In the Phillipsburg Toys "R" Us, for example, manager Mark Schantz estimated that the "R" Market took up just 1,300 of the store's 30,000 square feet - that's just 4.3%. Storch...
...quiz: What legendary group did future pop-producing machine Scott Storch join in his teens and then quit? What does EPMD stand for? How many original members of the Wu-Tang Clan are there? Answers one by one, all in good time; bear with me for a word or 800. I’ve been a vocal and unapologetic critic of Yardfest in the past, but I’m in full support of tomorrow’s concert, featuring the Wu-Tang Clan (Gavin DeGraw, I have no idea who you are, but I’ll give...
...whose most famous native sons and daughters had to leave town to make it big. The honor roll would include Joe Piscopo, Paul Rudd, Steely Dan's Donald Fagen, Gilligan's Island creator Sherwood Schwartz, three-time Oscar-winning producer Saul Zaentz, sitcom regulars Loretta Swit and Larry Storch, sports hysteric Dick Vitale...and, Be Kind Rewind tells us, the legendary pianist and composer Fats Waller...
...Shea Jackson’s 2008 album “Raw Footage”—serves as a promise to hardcore headz that he is, in fact, true to the game. The sad thing is that the promise rings a bit hollow, as trite Storch-esque piano chords and a dearth of true street knowledge belie the gritty aspirations of the video. Cube opens with the now-obligatory pre-music skit, this time set in a dystopian futuristic classroom in which the teacher is brainwashing kids about the evils of gangsta rap (“COMPTON...