{"id":193498,"date":"2008-12-11T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/11\/kb-toys-files-chapter-11-2\/"},"modified":"2008-12-11T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T23:25:00","slug":"kb-toys-files-chapter-11-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/11\/kb-toys-files-chapter-11-2\/","title":{"rendered":"KB Toys Files Chapter 11 (+2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=awF9nHheY7qw&amp;refer=home\">third time since 2004<\/a>, they, as both KB and FAO Schwartz, did a twofer in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Filing for bankruptcy as a tow store less than 3 weeks before Christmas? <\/p>\n<p>Looks like liquidation this time.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the obligatory scare quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Sales were little changed from Feb. 3 until Oct. 4, KB Toys said. Since then, sales have dropped almost 20 percent, the company said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sales fell as the Xmas season buying frenzy ramped up&#8230;.Not good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third time since 2004, they, as both KB and FAO Schwartz, did a twofer in 2004. Filing for bankruptcy as a tow store less than 3 weeks before Christmas? Looks like liquidation this time. Here is the obligatory scare quote: Sales were little changed from Feb. 3 until Oct. 4, KB Toys &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1004,1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-finance","category-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}