Toy stores and much in the tribulation – Telegraaf.nl

the Netherlands had at the beginning of 2008 still 965 speelgoedbedrijven, which together 1375 shops counted. Of these, there were at the beginning of this year, 660 on, with 1,100 branches. The strongest decline occurred in the province of Utrecht, where the number of physical toy stores with a third declined.

The sales of toy stores since 2008 with nearly 35 per cent. That is partly due to the economic crisis in that year showed its head. But this is probably also aware that the number of children in the age up to 12 years in the same period, with 6 percent has decreased, says chief economist Peter Hein van Mulligen of the CBS.

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in Addition, the according to Van Mulligen obvious that parents have more toys online are going to buy. That trend you see in the whole retail so that will be for toys too.” The CBS does not, however, about the precise figures to back it up.

A final possible factor that Mulligen mentions is the growing popularity of video game consoles. ,,You don’t necessarily have to a toy store. Computer also sell games and consoles,” says the economist.