Some kind of Wonder!

What lies between impersonal but highly efficient big-box stores and quality-conscious yet logistically confined specialty stores with high operating costs in the kids retail space in North America? The question is one that vexed Lake Forest, Illinois-based venture capitalist Shane Christensen as he started surveying the kid-oriented retail landscape a few years back. But he thinks he's found the answer in Wonder! - a new kids retail superstore that will combine the most appealing aspects of big-box stores and their specialty counterparts. Christensen is aiming to open the first location of a planned Wonder! chain in Deerfield, Illinois, which sits on the outskirts of Chicago, in November.