If the universe is alive, then everything is biology.
Hasbr-uh-oh - Business and Tariffs Discussion
- Thread starter Thylacine 2000
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If the universe is dead, blame Shockwave.
If the universe is half dead, half alive, blame Dr. Frankenstein. Or possibly Walt Disney, depending on who you ask.
Just because it doesn't exist doesn't mean companies aren't hunting for it. They've been blowing up their long-term business for years now to get as much immediate growth and profit as possible. It's a damn epidemic at this point, and the bubble will eventually burst, it's just a matter of when.
Preach it. The company I work for buys whole-hog into the "if you're not growing, you're dying" philosophy, so I'm saddled with all kinds of idiotic mandates in pursuit of retail business that simply doesn't exist in my territory. Two of our retail-heavy competitors have closed their doors in our town, the last one several years ago. If there was any more business to be had, our store already had it. But, thats not good enough for the pin-headed corporate morons in charge...
we have had our most profitable year ever!!! anyways we are sadly having to do layoffs 
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It'll all trickle down one day.
One day.
One day.
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One day.......
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This is terrible. We're all boned.
A developing story at the moment:
Everest Toys, a Canada based distributor, has, seemingly, abruptly shut down. Everest is a North American distributor for specialty retailers who handle everything from acquired brands like Crazy Forts and Alex Global Products, to distribution for major companies like Blokees, Mattel, Lego, and Hasbro. Details remain light on the specifics as to the abrupt closure of the family owned business, but its website remains online, even as its phone support line went dark the last couple of days.
Everest Toys is a major foundation for the Putnam Investments Group of properties, which include Sunrise Records, FYE, Famous Toys and the Canadian arms of Toys R Us and Babies R Us. Disruptions in Everest's business would likely have a ripple effect across North American specialty retailers.
toybook.com
Everest Toys, a Canada based distributor, has, seemingly, abruptly shut down. Everest is a North American distributor for specialty retailers who handle everything from acquired brands like Crazy Forts and Alex Global Products, to distribution for major companies like Blokees, Mattel, Lego, and Hasbro. Details remain light on the specifics as to the abrupt closure of the family owned business, but its website remains online, even as its phone support line went dark the last couple of days.
Everest Toys is a major foundation for the Putnam Investments Group of properties, which include Sunrise Records, FYE, Famous Toys and the Canadian arms of Toys R Us and Babies R Us. Disruptions in Everest's business would likely have a ripple effect across North American specialty retailers.
Everest Toys Faces Uncertain Future
Sources say a restructuring may be in play, but the sudden shutdown underscores ongoing challenges for distributors navigating tariffs and shifting retail dynamics.
toybook.com
Ohhhhhhhhhh boy. D=
Don't worry, you won't have to pay the tax...because it simply won't ship in the first place. There's literally no infrastructure in place to handle the huge increase in things that are taxed, and no real guidance about how this will be handled, so companies simply refuse to throw packages into the void and just hope things get sorted out. We have embargoed ourselves.
---Dave
---Dave
Yeah, ebay sent its Canadian (and probably other countries) sellers an email recently basically cancelling our US shipping options and telling us to use couriers like FedEx if we want to send anything for the time being.
Postal services in Europe suspend parcel shipments to US amid uncertainty over tariffs
Donald Trump’s late announcement left operators with ‘extremely limited timeframe to get prepared’
www.theguardian.com
who cares not like we need anything from other countries anyway, we just make all our stuff here
look at apple products, DESIGNED BY APPLE IN CALIFORNIA.
pls ignore the smaller text saying 'made in china' below that btw thanks
look at apple products, DESIGNED BY APPLE IN CALIFORNIA.
pls ignore the smaller text saying 'made in china' below that btw thanks
No, they know we don't make jive here. They are for this, because they believe it will FORCE people to just suddenly make everything in America and then ship it out to the rest of the world while we get good old fashioned cheap quality products again because nothing will ever need to be imported.
If that's at me, it's more this part I'm worried about:
Not super-eager to see any of those go under, even if TRU has been circling the drain for a bit now.