Comment by _zoltan_
5 hours ago
but ... they did get away with it? based on the blog post, it ends with the store closure? (which I don't understand why)
5 hours ago
but ... they did get away with it? based on the blog post, it ends with the store closure? (which I don't understand why)
If you search for "Bricks and minifigs", every result apart from their main website is about this controversy. One of the values of a franchise is the branding; at least for the forseeable future, this will be a negative value. For a company that serves a small niche community, this seems like suicide.
It seems they closed the store rather than give back the lego. That seems like a win of sorts, because I'm sure it hurts B&M to some degree, but it's not getting the stolen lego back.
I've now also seen part 2, in which the amount of police harassment that B&M seems to be able to bring to bear is absolutely disgusting.
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