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| Titchgamer:
--- Quote from: wp34 on March 19, 2018, 11:52:58 am ---I have no data to support this but I find it hard to believe toy sales overall are not down. My wife tells stories of having to teach kids in her classroom how to play with blocks and other toys when they have indoor recess. They have no concept of what to do with something that doesn't have a screen on it. --- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 19, 2018, 09:41:09 am ---Nope, not really. Yes more and more people are buying stuff online, but you don't discover new products online, especially child-oriented stuff like toys, you do that in a store where you can browse. If you don't believe me then try to stumble upon something new on sites like amazon or Walmart.com, where the toys category can have thousands of entries. --- End quote --- I agree with this 100%. The online browsing experience just isn't the same. To this day I can't walk past a Hot Wheels display without at least taking a peek and still buy 3 or 4 cars a year. Never have I browsed them on online. Plus the visceral experience of flipping through the cars on the rack is part of the enjoyment. --- End quote --- That worries me greatly... But I cant really say I am surprised. Still I find it really sad, having had apprentices straight out of school I have noticed their general knowledge drop year on year. Inability to use calculators or read a rule. But apparently they are loosing their imagination also! Very sad state of affairs! |
| jennifer:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 19, 2018, 09:41:09 am ---Nope, not really. Yes more and more people are buying stuff online, but you don't discover new products online, especially child-oriented stuff like toys, you do that in a store where you can browse. If you don't believe me then try to stumble upon something new on sites like amazon or Walmart.com, where the toys category can have thousands of entries. Also as I've said, the primary reason Toy R Us is shutting down has to do with some bad business decisions behind the scenes that incurred massive debt they could never recover from. Toy Sales aren't down, they just haven't shown much growth in recent years, which is fine if you don't have any debt to pay off, but if you do.... In general online stores are killing brick and mortar though and the reason is that none of their online websites are structured properly. If I order from an online version of a store, the sale goes to the website, not my local store... if they want to save the b&m store then the sale should go to my local store, even if I buy it online, even if they don't have it in stock. If they did that then the problem would be solved. The thing is, they don't want to do that, because it would mean the company as a whole would earn slightly less money, and CEOs are so short sighted that they can't see without the b&m stores their websites will wither and die, because the brand recognition from seeing the stores everywhere is the only reason people visit their website as opposed to more popular ones like amazon.com. Did you know that Montgomery Wards is still in business online? Neither does anyone else because the real stores went out of business. The company that bought the name and continued the online catalog went out of business within 4 years, and it's been constantly changing hands ever since. No Stores=no brand recognition. --- End quote --- Well.... Thing is you do, Not only do kids already know what they want, via friends and interwebs, but finding it at TR/us or M/w probably a long day of futility , driving all over town and still price compare online as you shop anyway.... As for new products, well there too, just being online looking at say a cute panty set, the ads follow you around profiling you and sneaking in product placement tactics and finally pop up at sites like this in a banner ad where many choices prevail, all competing for your attention I would assume Saint would get some kind of ad generated kickback, should you not only read the ad but actually buy it through this site, Not a bad thing friend....As for Toys are Us, they can blow chunks for all I care, they stopped selling solvent based model paints and glue years ago (when the lost my business) and now Jennifer not only has choices, but can get the lowest prices, and free shipping through Amazon. |
| jennifer:
And furthermore.... It wasn't that long ago, where 1 store was your parts supplier, now You have literally the whole world at your fingertips, Choices Man, Many, many choices. ;D |
| dkersten:
Without seeing numbers, I would also have a hard time believing that toy sales have not declined. "Toy Sales" being any toy that is not a video game. Without video game sales, I can't imagine the toy market is doing even half of what it was a decade ago. Even so, if a business is not growing, it is dying. If your sales do not at least increase at the inflation rate, you are declining as a company, and enough years of that and you will be closing doors. |
| paigeoliver:
My kid has way more than 15-30 percent too many toys, and we never once went to Toys R Us. |
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