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"Where in the World?"
An interactive map showing where the 50 most recent orders placed on Fat Brain Toys are being shipped to.
Mapping technology provided by our good friends at Google.
When we first began this business, we eagerly plotted each and every sale with stick pins on a big map of the USA. While this exercise was primarily aimed at giving our children an education on how far reaching our business could be, it also proved to be a powerful reminder for us adults as well. But of course as our order volumes grew, our map quickly degraded into a massive blur of colored stick pins and we eventually discarded our map into the dumpster.
When Google first introduced their mapping service, it immediately conjured up that image of our original sales map. So I put it on my to-do list to create a digital version of the sales map using the Google Maps API. It turned out better than I could have ever imagined! Not only can you get a visual of where our orders are being shipped to, but by clicking on any stick pin, you can actually see what was ordered too. Even though we've shipped toys to over 130 countries around the world, unfortunately at this time we're only able to plot U.S. orders on our map (we'll work on that though!).
One other thing I'd like to draw attention to is the location of Fat Brain Toys smack dab in the middle of the country. Of course we didn't plan it that way (as I was born and raised here), but our central location gives us the ability to provide ultra-fast shipping to the entire country from East to West!
I hope you enjoy this look into Fat Brain Toys!
A partial list of the locations we serve in the U.S.
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PO Box 649, 20285 Wirt St.