Toys ‘R’ Us to liquidate

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Retail carnage is mushrooming, via Domainfax:

News broke overnight Australia time that Toys ‘R’ Us was preparing to sell or close all 885 stores in the US after failing to reach a deal to restructure billions of dollars of debt.

The Wall Street Journal reported that chief executive David Brandon told staff the company would likely liquidate stores in Australia, France, Spain and Poland, and would try to sell operations in Canada, central Europe and Canada.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.