We Can Work It Out
05/17/2022 I have always enjoyed listening to the Senate confirmation hearings over nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court. I’m not a lawyer (thank goodness),…
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The Pixie of Bixby Knolls
05/17/2022 by Tina Manzer Heather Rasmussen’s toy store in Long Beach, California, began as just four IKEA shelves-worth of toys set up in a…
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Is Your Store Ready for STEM STEAM Day?
05/17/2022 Twenty-one years after the acronym STEM was introduced by the U.S. National Science Foundation, experts agree that developing strong science, technology, engineering, art,…
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ASTRA Plans a Tropical Toy Event for February 2023
05/17/2022 An interview with Sue Warfield “When Toy Fair made its date-change announcement, ASTRA sent out a survey to a list of people in…
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Time to Reset and Move Ahead
03/21/2022 Seven Questions Business Owners Should Ask Themselves This Year The past couple of years have been incredibly stressful and chaotic for business owners….
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Play: The Perfect Getaway
03/21/2022 “The Great Play Escape” will be one of the top toy trends of 2022 according to the Toy Association. Toys that travel well,…
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Empowering Kids Through Play
03/21/2022 by Michael Nocella Pippi Longstocking, the nine-year-old adventurer in Astrid Lindgren’s beloved books, has inspired pretend play for more than 75 years. From…
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Classical Gas
When I got my driver’s license, the price of gasoline was about 35 cents per gallon, but by the time I got my first…
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Charting a Course with MAP
01/12/2022 In 2022, competing on price is going to be harder than ever for specialty toy retailers. But Minimum Advertised Pricing (MAP) policies, instituted…
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Things that Make You Smile
01/12/2022 The story of MukikiM, the company responsible for award winners like the Rock & Roll It Piano and The Genius Square, is a…
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