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Published on June 29, 2006
When the Bellevue Toys “R” Us, our nominee for corporate citizen of the year, gets a shipment of new bicycles, where do the old bikes go? To The Boys and Girls Clubs of America or Monroe Harding Children’s Home? Don’t be ridiculous. They go into the trash for those underprivileged yet plucky dumpster divers to find. Look how happy this young fellow in the gray T-shirt is to be getting a new bike. No more walking the paper route for him. And what will gray shirt do with all his extra paper route money? Why, buy an Xbox from Toys “R” Us, of course. Or maybe he’ll sell a few bikes on eBay to get his Xbox money? That kind of peddling seems more his speed.
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