With two children, who were 3 and 10 years old, the family would often shop at Learning Express Toys because Connie liked the educational aspect of their merchandise. The parent company has more than 130 franchised stores, locally owned and operated, that specialize in toys that combine fun with an opportunity to learn. Further, the stores are well integrated into the communities in which they operate, donating items for local school fundraising events. LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.com, is an online learning library that helps you learn business, software, technology and creative skills with just your library card and PIN.
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Bricks 4 Kidz classes are fun for kids and easy for parents and teachers. Whether you're arranging a birthday party or an after school STEM enrichment workshop, Bricks 4 Kidz will provide everything from invitations and lesson plans to the Bricks themselves. Every instructor is carefully screened and thoroughly trained to guide kids through hours of educational play. Shifting online does have drawbacks for big-box retailers, said Lutz Miller, owner and CEO of Klosters.
A huge percentage of toy sales at stores are impulse purchases, where a child can be seduced by packaging or placement, and the parent gives in. If busy parents shop online, after the kids go to bed, a lot of those sales go out the window. This program is available to teen parents in the Lafayette Parish School System to recieve child care for their children 6 weeks through 4 years old on the school campus. To participate in the program, the student must enroll at Northside High School and register to take the Child Development/Parenting classes.
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Learning Express is also developing software for automatic purchasing advice and establishing an online LE University, which will teach franchisees and employees about retail 101, marketing, and cash flow. "They'll also learn about merchandising, sales techniques, social media and store operations," DiMinico adds. E-commerce is difficult in a franchise system because every store has a protected territory. To solve the problem, we had to build a website from scratch. As Dunlop unpacked crates of Pikmi Pops behind the counter of her Citrus Park store, parents and children popped in. Some walked in with Christmas lists and out with Peppa Pigs.
Others browsed, poking Simons, chucking Doinkit Darts and sculpting piles of Mad Mattr and Floof. Toy stores may no longer be in vogue, but there remain few better places for families to kill time. You have to sell a lot of toys to make up the cost of the store, she said. And it's still not enough to compete with the Internet.
Specialty toy lines once prohibited products from being sold on Amazon, eBay and other sites, but that's changing. In the past three weeks, Kyers said, three European makers have said they will no longer ship their goods to American stores because online prices have gotten so low. Traditionally, Christmas is the most wonderful time of year in the toy business. But toy stores are struggling mightily in 2017 as more parents outsource Santa's work to Amazon. Great store with a nice variety of toys, books, games and educational resources. Our staff is happy to serve you while spreading joy to every customer we meet.
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It is important that every parent cooperates fully with the school health program. Our regulations are designed to protect the well being of all children and to guard against avoidable absences for health reasons. When there are symptoms of illness or other indications that a child is not well enough for group activities, arrangements must be made for his/her care at home. All Aboard…Learning Express, Inc. has no provisions for the care of children who are ill.
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The Learning Express has more than 100 franchises across the country, often in high-traffic areas like malls. It sells specialty products and mass-market lines like Lego. But its stores operate more independently than, say, Toys 'R' Us, giving local franchise owners more influence.
For nine "topsy turvy" years, Kyers has owned Silly Dilly's, an independent toy boutique in South Tampa. Her shop, whose business is about half toys, is among the few that have survived. When a child has been absent for a simple cold he/she may be re-admitted to school with the approval of the director. Following an illness accompanied by a rise in temperature, a child must be excluded from school and fever free for 24 hours before returning to school. Occasionally a child will experience difficulty in adjusting to a school setting and/or abiding by certain rules of behavior in the classroom. If the child is experiencing some difficulty, you will be notified and a conference will be scheduled.
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