{"id":9781,"date":"2023-06-30T10:43:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T14:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningexpress.com\/franchise\/?p=9781"},"modified":"2023-06-30T10:43:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T14:43:49","slug":"learning-express-toys-celebrates-record-success-at-2023-annual-convention-toy-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/learning-express-toys-celebrates-record-success-at-2023-annual-convention-toy-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Express Toys Celebrates Record Success at 2023 Annual Convention &#038; Toy Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PEOPLE OF PLAY<\/strong> &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;Learning Express Toys \n&amp; Gifts Franchise hosted its annual Convention and Toy Expo in \nSchaumburg, IL earlier this week.&nbsp;&nbsp;This year marked the 36<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;anniversary of the franchise, and 24<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;in-person\n Convention, and gave franchisees a chance to celebrate their community \nwhile getting a first look at upcoming products from nationwide vendors.\n The best vendors and products were presented with awards toward the end\n of the show.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year\u2019s Convention featured plenty to \ncelebrate as the franchise experienced record sales in recent years, \nwelcoming both regular local shoppers and kids who discovered a new \nfavorite store for the first time. Four new franchise locations opened \nsince the 2022 Convention, with an additional three stores slated for \nopening in the remainder of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heading into the second half of 2023, \nLearning Express Toys &amp; Gifts will see the debut of a new Point of \nSale system, saving time and adding convenience to both shoppers and \nemployees, and has also adopted new marketing technologies to increase \nsocial media reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click here to read more \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/peopleofplay.com\/blog\/learning-express-toys-celebrates-record-success-at-2023-annual-convention-toy-expo\">https:\/\/peopleofplay.com\/blog\/learning-express-toys-celebrates-record-success-at-2023-annual-convention-toy-expo<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEOPLE OF PLAY &#8211; The&nbsp;Learning Express Toys &amp; Gifts Franchise hosted its annual Convention and Toy Expo in Schaumburg, IL earlier this week.&nbsp;&nbsp;This year marked the 36th&nbsp;anniversary of the franchise, and 24th&nbsp;in-person Convention, and gave franchisees a chance to celebrate their community while getting a first look at upcoming products from nationwide vendors. The best&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9783,"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":[2,4,5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-convention","category-franchise-news","category-franchising","category-toy-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}