Abortions were bad for business (opinion piece)

[Not a Partisan Hack ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)]

http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-the-editor/2018-04-16/letter-the-editor-abortions-taking-toll-businesses.html



.These are children who otherwise would have been born and whose families could have contributed to the customer base of companies such as Toys R Us.

[Karpatsky]

Yet another example of old corporations fighting the last war and blaming the lifestyle of the new generation for their failures. Maybe if your business model wasn't terrible you wouldn't have to rely on forcing people to have unwanted children to survive.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The idea that Toys Я Us failed because not enuf toys overall were being bought in the economy is ludicrous.

[America's Sweetheart ❤/𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖞 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗]

The idea that Toys Я Us failed because not enuf toys overall were being bought in the economy is ludicrous.

As is the implication that aborted fetuses were children.

[KingSweden]

The idea that Toys Я Us failed because not enuf toys overall were being bought in the economy is ludicrous.

[TPIG]

Yeah, I don't buy this argument or really care if it's true. I'm more concerned with the fact that innocent babies are being murdered; economics doesn't come into the equation at all.

[DINGO Joe]

Borders failed because 45.93% of voters are minimally literate idiots.

[pbrower2a]

http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-the-editor/2018-04-16/letter-the-editor-abortions-taking-toll-businesses.html



.These are children who otherwise would have been born and whose families could have contributed to the customer base of companies such as Toys R Us.

Toys R Us failed because of a bad business model. The company had been bought in a leveraged buyout and the operation was obliged to pay a huge load of debt.  Its vendors liked it because it was the only toy seller that did not discount, but that came at a price: the full mark-up ended up paying off creditors more than making an above-average profit for dealing with Toys R Us.  Its competitors less encumbered with debt (including Wal*Mart, Target, Meijer, and even Family Dollar and Dollar General)  could always undercut it. A struggling firm finds it hard to attract, keep, and develop good employees. With "the World's Biggest Selection", Toys R Us needed above-average staff to sell the merchandise -- and struggling as it was, it lacked that staff. The company could not adapt to the new economic realities.

Here's where Toys R Us was a couple decades ago:

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And where it ended up:

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https://www.inc.com/magazine/19961001/1847.html

There are other companies selling toys, high abortion rates and late marriages notwithstanding.  The children that would be born without  these circumstances would mostly be in nearly-destitute households who could never afford to pay full price at Toys R Us anyway. It's often grandparents who buy the toys, and if they couldn't navigate their way around Toys R Us, they could go elsewhere in less-confusing environments.

Add to this -- America now has a culture of hardship in which children are no longer as demanding of expensive toys as they once were. Lots of children were compelled to grow up without ever becoming 'Toys R Us kids'. Now they will never have any chance at that experience.

Think about it: just because more people are buying cars than ever before does not mean that there remains a place for the Winton, Franklin, Auburn, Duesenberg, Hudson, Packard, and Studebaker nameplates. Some of those were fine cars in their time. Falling rate of childbirth or not, Toys R Us was doomed by its bad business model. IT FAILED TO ADAPT! 
 

[parochial boy]

I mean, the idea that the legalisation of abortion was what drove the post-war reduction in birth rates is... cretinous in the extreme. (and also relies on the somewhat naive belief that the US is the only country in the world)

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I mean, the idea that the legalisation of abortion was what drove the post-war reduction in birth rates is... cretinous in the extreme. (and also relies on the somewhat naive belief that the US is the only country in the world)

I couldn't really imagine how it would be cretinous rather than simply ill-informed. When I think of "cretinous" assumptions regarding Roe, I imagine those self-proclaimed geniuses that think abortion solves crime.

[Mr. Bullocks]

The more people, the more money a company will receive. Stay selfish everyone

[Person Man]

Everyone knows that abortion raises taxes.

[Adam Griffin]

[Progressive Pessimist]

Brilliant.

[Badger]

And yet these same people want to keep immigrants out of our country despite the purchasing power they bring. They want white babies primarily.