Retail (Rise of the Retail Suppliers & Their Financiers)

Factorers Flex Their Muscles

We're getting amped up for Star Wars and so we figured we'd use a SW-like subtitle here. Anyway, Toys R Us'trouble sparked a vendor awakening (see what we did there?) and attendant media speculation, which, combined (with an obnoxious level of PE-placed debt), sparked the behemoth-retailer's surprise bankruptcy filing. Its lo…