{"id":9923,"date":"2023-10-10T15:10:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T19:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningexpress.com\/franchise\/?p=9923"},"modified":"2023-10-10T15:10:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T19:10:55","slug":"cautious-optimism-from-the-toy-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/cautious-optimism-from-the-toy-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Cautious optimism from the Toy Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Toy World Magazine October 2023<\/strong> &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After 20 years working at A.C. Nielsen\/D&amp;B Research Company, Rick Derr opened the first Learning Express Toys franchise in the Chicago area in 1996, and then became a sub-franchiser, opening nine more stores. Although leaving the corporate environment behind, he has combined his expertise in data and numbers with a passion for the toy retail space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This month Rick updates Toy World readers on the latest from indie toy retail in the USA and tells us how new sections in his store are performing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click here to read more &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/articles\/36737634\">https:\/\/issuu.com\/articles\/36737634<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toy World Magazine October 2023 &#8211; After 20 years working at A.C. Nielsen\/D&amp;B Research Company, Rick Derr opened the first Learning Express Toys franchise in the Chicago area in 1996, and then became a sub-franchiser, opening nine more stores. Although leaving the corporate environment behind, he has combined his expertise in data and numbers with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9924,"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":[9,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-owner-spotlight","category-retail","category-toy-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923","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=9923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}