Term Papers on Charles Lazarus

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Charles Lazarus

I. Charles Lazarus - Biographical Information

Charles Lazarus, one of several children, was born on October 4, 1923.  The Lazarus family lived in an apartment above their shop in Washington D.C.  His father bought old, broken bicycles, repaired and painted them, and then sold them for a profit.  Charles spent a great deal of time in his father's bicycle shop when he was young.  When he grew older, he helped his father fix the bikes and serve customers, as well as give input on how to improve the business.  Charles didn't understand why their store didn't sell new bikes, and his father explained that larger stores could buy the bikes cheaper in large quantities and therefore could sell them at discounted prices.  Charles often longed for his own store when he grew older.
Lazarus was in his early twenties when he left the Army.  He didn't want to go to college and knew only one thing: "I wanted to work and I wanted to make money."  Because of his ambitiousness and hard work ethics, Charles decided to go into retailing.  It was his father's example as well as his years spent in the bicycle shop that gave him much of his business training.

II.     The History of Toys "R" Us

During the post war years of the late forties and early fifties, Charles Lazarus anticipated the baby boom because many soldiers were being discharged from the Army and were beginning to start families.  In 1948, he borrowed $2,000 and started his first business, selling baby furniture.  His first shop was 40 feet by 60 feet, filled with cribs and baby furniture.  After two years of operation, Lazarus realized that many customers had been asking if he stocked baby toys, to which he always replied "no." It was at this point that he realized "the customers want toys."
     To begin with, Lazarus stocked only a few infant toys.  As the customers' kids grew and their needs became more varied, however, he began to sell tricycles, books, and a much wider range of toys.
     Charles first got the idea for a self-service supermarket while on a trip to New York.  He recognized the efficiency of the supermarket grocery stores and decided to reorganize his store, modeling it after a supermarket.  In his new reorganized store he had several different styles of an item in stock, as opposed to the one or two styles in his original store that had to be ordered from the company after a customer decided to purchase the item.  Not only could he sell the items at a lower price to his customers and still make a profit, but also when a customer chose a particular item, he could deliver it immediately.  He renamed his improved store to Baby Furniture and Toy Supermarket.
     Soon after the reorganization of his first store, Lazarus opened another one.  He quickly realized that he would have to invest in training other people to manage the stores and keep them up and running.
     After deciding that the current name of his store still didn't convey an accurate description of what the store had to offer, which was now primarily toys, he renamed his stores to Toys "R" Us, with the "R" reversed.  This became the distinctive logo for his company.  In later years, Geoffrey the Giraffe would become the company's "mascot", and would create a memorable, positive impression with shoppers.

III. Toys "R" Us' Current Status...

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