Posted on 03/22/2018 8:08:48 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Toys R Us says millennials not having kids hurt the company and it could be because of a looming 'demographic time bomb'
Millennials are not like their parents.
Typically defined as those born from 1981 to 1996, millennials are more racially diverse and more college-educated and marry later than previous generations. Millennial women are also increasingly delaying parenthood or forgoing it altogether, as reflected by the US's declining fertility rate. Fertility hit a record low in 2016, bringing the rate among women ages 15 to 44 to 62 births per 1,000 women.
Many economists are wringing their hands about what this means for the US economy, since economic growth is harder when people don't have children.
Some say the US is at risk of becoming "a demographic time bomb," with fertility rates falling at a time when longevity is increasing. Japan where 2017 marked a 118-year low for fertility at the same time people were living longer than ever before is regarded as the poster child for this phenomenon.
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Why shop there you can order from Amazon half the price. Not that Milenials are having less babies, its about COST!
Why would I pay $450 for a Stroller there when I can get the same one on Amazon at half the cost or less. They priced themselves out of the market. Same Chinse product to boot.
Same reason I shop the local grocery store, it’s cheaper, has same quality food vs Military Commissary, and it gives gas points that the Commissary doesnt. And I get bargains where as the Commissary doesn’t have them. Usually prices are slightly higher.
How much did this Company contributre to Planned Parenthood?
Yeah, the $6.5 billion in debt that Bain Capital loaded onto Toys’R’US had nothing to do with their problems...
It was their outrageous pricing and scummy stores that ran them out of business.
Anyone could look up an item on their shelf on their phone and find it elsewhere cheaper.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Amen, m’dear.
Unmarried hipster age girls have babies like nothing...solo
Married educated hipsters have mongrel dogs to fill up the Subaru ...if they drive
Its pitiful
Most births in America today are to undesirable producers
More progressives
Toys is most likely the easiest item to buy online. It isnt the low birth rate, it is online shopping that is causing brick and mortar stores to go out of business.
But I also heard their management was bloated and incompetent in the face of Amazon.
That's the truth for Toys'R'Us. The population may be going down but their high prices can't compete with online shopping and Craig's list resales. Legos are unbelievably high in priced. Cheaper to buy it second hand.
America is in it’s final death-throes.
This nation has systematically murdered over 60 million of it’s own children.
You think God hasn’t noticed?
If you ever read all the insane liberal comments at Yahoo, you would definitely believe America is in serious trouble.
Never seen such mass stupidity. They have to be regulars at DU and Huff Po. Nobody can be that stupid. Or shouldn’t be, I mean.
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