{"id":3178,"date":"2018-03-16T12:12:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningexpress.com\/franchise\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2018-03-16T12:12:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:12:02","slug":"sharon-diminico-tells-why-local-toy-stores-are-thriving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/sharon-diminico-tells-why-local-toy-stores-are-thriving\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder &#038; CEO Explains Why Local Toy Stores Are Thriving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>DEVENS, Massachusetts<\/strong>. New Orleans ABC affiliate, WGNO, recently interviewed Learning Express Toys CEO &#038; Founder, Sharon DiMinico.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, DiMinico discussed her company&#8217;s unique in-store experience that keeps customers coming through the door in an ever-increasing digital age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been able to withstand the growth of Amazon and Walmart,\u201d DiMinico said. \u201cWe\u2019ve coexisted with Toys \u2018R\u2019 Us for 30 years. I like to think of us as an intelligent alternative in the toy business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To read the article on the New Orleans ABC affiliate WGNO, click the link below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wgno.com\/2018\/03\/16\/local-toy-stores-are-thriving-as-toys-r-us-is-dying\/\">Local Toy Stores Are Thriving As Toys \u201cR\u201d Us Is Dying<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEVENS, Massachusetts. New Orleans ABC affiliate, WGNO, recently interviewed Learning Express Toys CEO &#038; Founder, Sharon DiMinico. In the interview, DiMinico discussed her company&#8217;s unique in-store experience that keeps customers coming through the door in an ever-increasing digital age. \u201cWe have been able to withstand the growth of Amazon and Walmart,\u201d DiMinico said. \u201cWe\u2019ve coexisted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toy-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}