Private Equity
As the demise of Toys “R” Us shows, people at the top are constantly finding ways to extract all the value from companies while leaving nothing for workers. A year ago, she was a store manager at Toys “R” Us. Today, Anne Marie Reinhart Smith has become a minor online celebrity. Not to say that everyone knows her name, but she’s become the lede for many a story (and now this one, as well) written about the store’s recent bankruptcy and all of the employees they left high and dry (33,000, to be exact).

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