Even Toys "R" Us is delaying opening one of the biggest toy stores in the world on Times Square in New York.

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Gantner has spent every day of the last six months on the road, doing demos in schools, toy stores, shopping malls, street corners anywhere he can pull in the kids and light a fire.

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Gantner has spent every day of the last six months on the road, doing demos in schools, toy stores, at scout meetings, shopping malls, street corners anywhere he can pull in the kids and light a fire.

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The toy was named toy of the year in Australia and recently made Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

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Be it pink doctor kits in toy stores or steakhouses with lipstick mirrors in the desert menus, the pervasive nature of marketing entertainment to women accomplishes two insidious goals.

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But this summer thousands of little girls will be clamoring, or so we presume, for the new Lindsay Lohan Barbie scheduled to hit toy stores in August.

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Its posh, company-owned American Girl stores are as close as you can get to Apple Store profitability in the toy-selling business.

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The big toy chains were avoided and Beanies were sold to smaller, independent stores in bundles of three dozen or less.

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