PRIMARY SOURCEevery Bricks & Minifigs store on one map, colored by the company’s own point-of-sale, ownership, and opening dataCONFIRMED158 of the 191 stores the company’s own register tracks run on one shared point-of-sale instance
Primary sources: the public Bricks & Minifigs store finder; the company’s own store-management system, reachable without a login (captured July 23, 2026); state business registries and county property records. The tool: the store map. Related: The store, The disclosure.
Bricks & Minifigs requires every franchisee to buy the point-of-sale system the company specifies, pay a monthly fee to run it, connect it to the company’s central computers, and let the company read the data. The company’s own store-management system, which needs no login, records which instance each store runs on. Of the 191 stores it tracks, 158, about 83 percent, sit on one shared instance, numbered 100005. All 309 locations are now on a single map at /stores/, each one carrying the company’s own record for that store beside the operator and property owner named in the public registries, with a link to the government page every entry came from.
Three hundred and nine stores are plotted. For each one the record carries what the company’s own systems carry: the store’s franchise number, its division and market, its point-of-sale instance, its floor area, its soft- and grand-opening dates, and its internal record number, none of which the company publishes and all of which its own store-management system serves without a login. Beside that sits the public half: the operating entity of record and the property owner, each linked out to the state business registry and to a property-records search so any reader can pull the same page the entry was built from. Coordinates are the store finder’s own. Owner home and mailing addresses, and any system credentials, are left out.
There are sixteen point-of-sale instances in the company’s records, and one of them holds five in six of the stores that have any. The requirement behind that concentration is in the company’s own franchise documents: every store buys the point-of-sale system the company specifies, pays a monthly fee to run it, connects it to the company’s central computers, and grants the company access to the data. The map is what that requirement looks like once it is drawn. The same map redraws by division, by operator, by opening year and by status.
Who holds each store is a matter of public record. One hundred and ninety-one stores carry a named operating entity and 226 a named property owner, each drawn from public records and each linked back to them. Nineteen operators run more than one store: one couple operates five, and several others run three. The operator behind the two Oregon stores at the center of this site’s Salem reporting holds two. Where the operating entity has been resolved in the state registry, the map also shows the chain of entities behind the store, predecessor to successor, with a link to each filing; the three Oregon stores show that chain plainly, a dead entity in the registry replaced by a live one. That resolution is being done store by store and is not yet complete; until it is, an unresolved store links to a registry search rather than a single filing.
In fairness: a franchise is supposed to share systems. Requiring one point-of-sale platform, one set of central computers, and one data feed is ordinary franchising, and the company discloses that it does exactly this. Sharing an operator across two stores, or a landlord across several, is normal too, and nothing on the map is a finding that any store, entity, or person did anything wrong. The map asserts nothing. It puts the company’s own operational record beside the public ownership record, on one screen, and lets a reader check every store against the government source it came from.
Sources. Store locations, status, and coordinates: the public Bricks & Minifigs store finder. Franchise number, division, market, point-of-sale instance, dates, floor area, program, and internal record number: the company’s own store-management system, reachable without a login, captured July 23, 2026. Operator of record and property owner, and the entity-history chains where resolved: public state business-registry and county property records, each linked from the store’s entry. Owner home and mailing addresses are excluded. The tool is at /stores/; the store-level pricing work is in The store and the franchise requirements in The disclosure.
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