Cabbage Patch Dolls Started Riots in 1983? #doll #history

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Cabbage Patch Kids caused store riots in 1983 — not because of violence, but because each doll was “adopted.” This is how scarcity created frenzy. Follow for more.
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Cabbage Patch Kids: The Holiday Shopping Frenzy, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 1983
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/cabbage-patch-kids

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