The Death of Toys R Us and what it will mean.

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Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: pbj on March 16, 2018, 08:42:58 pm ---Well, they always had it, but you were always going to pay at least full retail. I only ever went when we were buying some specific toy for some super particular birthday kid.

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The thing about Toys R Us is, regardless of if you shopped there you reaped the benefits of their stores so long as you bought toys. As I explained they had a lot of shelf space and some of it was allotted for new toy lines to try their stuff. Lots of toy lines would have never made it without Toy R Us.

The fact that they charged "too much" had little to do with their downfall though. It mostly had to do with some clowns behind the scenes incurring massive debt with bad investments.

jennifer:
Unless a toy possesses some inherent physical danger, Like burns, some nitro powered finger chomping flying device, or involves strapping bottle rockets on Barbie, for a moon walk, they are just not fun and I can see why they would close a store that was selling high priced pokeman candy.

wp34:
We went to the closing sale today so my wife could pick up some things for a special needs student in her classroom. There are some good deals if you are into action figures and collectibles. Most things were 40% off but Nintendo Switches and Lego's were only 10% off.

DaOld Man:

--- Quote from: wp34 on March 17, 2018, 07:58:23 pm ---We went to the closing sale today so my wife could pick up some things for a special needs student in her classroom. There are some good deals if you are into action figures and collectibles. Most things were 40% off but Nintendo Switches and Lego's were only 10% off.

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That legos x-wing kit was 70 bucks (+change) at Toys R Us, at walmart it was 60 (+change). Thats more than 10% just by going to a different store thats not boasting 10% off.
Now why is Toys R Us closing, again?

Grasshopper:
There are many high street stores that I'll miss once they're gone, but Toys R Us definitely isn't one of them.

Visiting my local branch is a soul destroying experience. Last time I went the shop was completely dead - only a handful of customers, and a couple of bored looking staff who can't provide you with any information about the products they're selling. Very few of the interactive toys were being demonstrated so I was left looking at rows upon rows of sealed boxes. What's the fun in that? And as someone has already pointed out, they're very overpriced.

One other thing that irritates me is that it's really hard to leave the premises. You're forced to go through the checkouts even if you haven't bought anything, and then you have to walk down a maze of corridors before you can actually reach the exit. I presume this is to deter shoplifting, but it hardly generates a feeling of goodwill when a shop treats its customers as potential criminals.

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