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When it comes to Black Friday sales, many look for bargains on electronics, clothes or toys.

Many parents writing up toy lists are coping with higher childcare bills, plus knock-on tariff costs steeped into prices.

For Hobby Works, a chain of two toy stores in Maryland, pressure from tariff costs and whiplash on economic policy this year has been compounded in recent weeks by the federal government shutdown.

It’s like they’re being polite: “OK, you can have the toy for 15 minutes . . . . but don’t forget who it belongs to.”

Meyer and Glass concluded it was the wrong time to release a boxing toy.