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Re:Amazon Has Considered Buying Some Toys ‘R’ Us Stores by opmac on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @05:25PM (#16632820)
> They make the company pay them dividends while saddling the company with their debt.

Yes that is true. Is the sum of dividends over X years >= the amount of equity wiped out in a Chapter 7 liquidation? Impossible to say... the company is private.

> They make

They didn't make them do anything. They bought the company... they can do what they want as owners. That's just how this game works.

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Re:Amazon Has Considered Buying Some Toys ‘R’ Us Stores by s73v3r_ on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @07:15PM (#16633712)
And that's not a good enough argument anymore. They did force this upon the company, and they are feeling absolutely none of the consequences of their decision.
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Re:Amazon Has Considered Buying Some Toys ‘R’ Us Stores by opmac on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:51PM (#16634284)
> they are feeling absolutely none of the consequences of their decision

Man I wish I knew the fine details of the books of a multi-billion dollar private equity firm like you do.

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