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Re:Toys ‘R’ Us Plans Bankruptcy Filing Amid Debt Struggle by Naritai on Monday September 18, 2017 @06:13PM (#15280150)
OP is talking about a small toy store, but regardless - an international franchise that has a location in your home town employs people from your home town, whereas Amazon (for the sake of argument in this case) does not. That's the core argument of 'buy local'.
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Re:Toys ‘R’ Us Plans Bankruptcy Filing Amid Debt Struggle by icebraining on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @03:41AM (#15282531)
Pretty sure the person who delivers my packages doesn't live in another country.
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Re:Toys ‘R’ Us Plans Bankruptcy Filing Amid Debt Struggle by Naritai on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @12:03PM (#15295274)
A tiny fraction of the alternate, yes. Though of course much of the logistics planning an operations is easily outsourced.
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