The Toys R Us and Babies R Us today was sold to a
private investment group for $6.6 billion. What’s this mean for parents? Well,
hard to say. It’s clear that the new owners will sell of much of TRU’s real
estate and shrink the toy chain to a small number of stores. But the Babies R Us
group is the company’s best division, growing in sales and profits. And its
doubtful the new owners will want to fix what ain’t broke. Expect BRU to
continue to expand and (probably) be spun off some day as its own company.