NextDraft

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Real News Daily by Dave Pell, Managing Editor, Internet

Toys ‘R’ Us seems to be making a comeback as the company announced plans to have 160 standalone stores open in time for the holidays. This must be good news. It must mean that children have not had their attention spans completely usurped by screens. They still long for good, old-fashioned, tactile toys that, if things work out according to plan, they might even want to play with outdoors? Well, not exactly. It turns out that one of the big drivers in the Toys ‘R’ Us resuscitation is toy purchases coming from adults (I know, that’s not what you thought the headline adult toys referred to, but maybe Toys ‘R’ Us still sells Erector Sets…)…from nextdraft.com

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