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I predict they’ll close 1/2 of those in five years time. There will eventually be a recession and I don’t think they’ll be able to support that many stores.

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I don't know how many stores they currently have worldwide, but 160 new stores across the entire world is nothing.

That's less than one new store per country on average.

To put it in perspective there are 37,000 McDonald's and 11,766 Wal-Marts in the world. Even Levi's has 750 of their own stores worldwide.

They have 180 in the world and about 80 are in the United States. 160 more almost doubles their worldwide footprint.

China is becoming one of LEGO’s biggest markets, but their store presence here is still minimal. According to the article, 140 of the new stores will be in China.

I’m sure there’s plenty room for growth in a couple other markets as well.

But there are tens of thousands of other toy stores that sell virtually all their products, so the percentage increase is rather small.

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