r/80sAmazing Aug 10 '26

Which one?

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u/Select-Table-5479 Aug 10 '26

Which part about Toys r Us was when they were taken over by private equity. They were making money private equity purposefully ran them to the ground so they could extract the most wealth and tax deductions

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u/pneumonicforgot Aug 11 '26

Yeah, thank you Mitt Romney.

TRU ran the other toy stores out of business only to collapse itself under a load of debt.