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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not enough kids in upper NW DC to support a toy store. They can't even fill their schools there. That's why they need to have such a high number of out of bounds students at Wilson and Deal and Janney etc. [/quote]

There are plenty of kids to fill Janney, Deal, and Wilson, it's just that many if not most of them are going to private schools instead.

Lack of kids isn't what closed Sullivan's, people are just getting their toys elsewhere, like online where it's cheaper and arrives at your door in hours. It's tough to compete against that kind of convenience.  [/quote]

I agree that people got lazy, but an effort could be made to save Sullivan's. People make a pointed effort to shop at Politics and Prose, because they don't want to wake up and see a void there. We need to save Sullivan's. And it doesn't sound like AU tapped into that, or they could totally have delegated some students to make a student project around saving Sullivan's. Zero imagination.[/quote]

When I’ve visited Sullivan’s in person the last few months, I’ve asked each time what’s happening because the shelves were bare, etc - each time I was told that AU has made rents unaffordable but that Sullivan’s had already identified a number of possible new sites and would certainly end up re-opening there. I wish they’d actually told people they were in trouble…(more of) an effort probably would have been made if the community had known. Also, I know that our family as well as another on our street continued ordering from Sullivan’s for delivery throughout the pandemic. [/quote]

You can order toys on Amazon.  But Amazon can’t deliver the experience of a hot new neighborhood bistro. [/quote]

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