{"id":3362,"date":"2018-05-03T11:37:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T15:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningexpress.com\/franchise\/?p=3362"},"modified":"2018-05-03T11:37:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T15:37:06","slug":"sharon-diminico-discusses-why-local-shops-outlast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/sharon-diminico-discusses-why-local-shops-outlast\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO &#038; Founder Discusses Why Local Shops Outlasted TRU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>DEVENS, Massachusetts<\/strong>. The Boston Globe recently wrote an article featuring Learning Express Toys CEO &#038; Founder, Sharon DiMinico.<\/p>\n<p>In the article, DiMinico discussed her thoughts on why local toys stores outlasted the Toys &#8216;R&#8217; US collapse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think for franchise expansion, there may be opportunities for us that didn\u2019t exist before because of Toys \u2018R\u2019 Us,&#8221; DiMinico said.  &#8220;We\u2019ve actually tried to get into the same centers as they\u2019re in, and we were denied inclusion because of Toys \u2018R\u2019 Us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To read the article at the Boston Globe, click the link below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/regionals\/west\/2018\/05\/03\/local-shops-outlast-toys-with-mixed-feelings\/GTd6GDwsR4S8DvMhrVcUJO\/story.html\">Local Shops Outlast Toys \u2018R\u2019 Us, With Mixed Feelings<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEVENS, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe recently wrote an article featuring Learning Express Toys CEO &#038; Founder, Sharon DiMinico. In the article, DiMinico discussed her thoughts on why local toys stores outlasted the Toys &#8216;R&#8217; US collapse. \u201cI think for franchise expansion, there may be opportunities for us that didn\u2019t exist before because of Toys \u2018R\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2073,"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-3362","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\/3362","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=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}