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

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wp34:

--- Quote from: dkersten on March 21, 2018, 09:57:57 am ---Amazon is looking to buy several of the Toys R Us locations.

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Oh that could be interesting.

pbj:
I registered 210-867-5309 to my Toys R Us account. I get an e-mail with a copy of a receipt from some fellow uncreative smartass about 3 times a year. Usually diapers from Babys R Us.

:lol

ChadTower:

Toys R Us opened up a brand new location a mile from my house in November. Nice work, guys.

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: wp34 on March 21, 2018, 09:47:57 am ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 20, 2018, 09:35:28 pm ---Well something interesting has come about. Apparently Toys R Us still had the rights to the K B Toys brand, which it bought after their closure in the late 90's. Since the last year has been a bit of a fire sale for the company, they sold the rights to one of those dead brand acquisition companies last year. Long story short, KB Toys, a vastly superior toy store imho, might be coming back! The announced plan is they intend to open some temporary stores this fall for the holiday season, similar to how Spirit Halloween does now. If it goes well KB will come back with smaller stores in malls and shopping centers next year. So I guess somebody is stepping up to fill the void.

I frikkin loved KB back in the day.... most of my games and nearly all of my toys came from that place. I liked it because it was a combination toy store and hobby store, so it grew with you. Of course atm they are KB in name only, so only time will tell if they will be as good as they were in the past.

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Were your KB stores in a mall or stand-alone? Ours were in the mall and their prices were very high. Having said that we did enjoy shopping there when the kids were little. We didn't buy much but they were great stores to browse.

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We had both but they were usually in a mall. The one I liked was in our local mall which was a smallish mall. You've got to remember though, my fond memories of the company are pre 1997, when they were still Kay Bee Toys. After the various mergers and take overs they weren't the same store, their prices were higher, ect. In general they didn't always have the lowest price, but they usually had hard to find stuff and a better selection in general. Toys R Us is similar btw, when I mention Toys R Us in a positive light I'm not really talking about the post Mitt Romney takeover monstrosity that it is today.

jennifer:
Depending on the accuracy of your news, Its quite transparent of whats going on....T/r/us is going to be supplying toys to Amazon as KB, (from smaller stores,) in exchange for the real estate. and T/r/us network.

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