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| RandyT:
The games industry will not suffer. It all goes online nowadays, and as much as I feared the practice, I find it hugely convenient. If you wait for the sales, it's even more economical. The reason Walmart is dumping VG related doo-dads is because they don't sell. If those companies want to pay for the retail space, I'm sure Walmart would figure out something for them. Otherwise, I'm sure they can be purchased all day long on the web someplace. And like PBJ said, try getting a kid to play with a toy for 5 minutes, when the flat, uber-stimulation device is sitting in the corner, incessantly dinging at them. :oldman |
| vwalbridge:
--- Quote ---The Death of Toys R Us and what it will mean? --- End quote --- It means nothing... literally nothing. Life goes on. If Toys R Us was supposed to have a succeeded, then it would have. Adapt or die. They chose not to. Everyone is replaceable so some other entity will just fill their void. (if there is even a void to fill) Nobody wants to admit it but Amazon dealt the first and final blow to Toys R Us. Amazon is an unstoppable force squashing all brick and mortar stores that get in its way. And I'm actually totally fine with this. Like it or not, retail in this "modern world" looks completely different and everyone better get on board or be squished just like Toys R Us. |
| pbj:
Toys R Us got caught up in a bad cycle of debt servicing that only an obscene amount of new revenue was going to solve. This is not a Blockbuster situation. Toys R Us was always a rich kids store. I only ever bought Sega games on clearance from them. :P |
| vwalbridge:
Toys R Us has been around since what? ...the 50's? They had 70 years to under their belt and just now they couldn't get their debt sorted out? Pfft....I don't buy it. The timing of EVERYONE shifting to online retail is just too coincidental. Talk to any parent and the last thing they want to do is take their kid into a toy store. LOL! If I can buy my kid a toy from the comfort of my own home on my ipad in the middle of the night, without my kids screaming at me and other kids running around and without paying sales tax and get free shipping...you bet I'm going to do that. It's not like Toys R Us invented toys. It's not like they brought anything proprietary to the toy shopping experience. They just sold the same toy you can get anywhere else and John Q Public finally woke up and figure that out. |
| Ian:
--- Quote from: vwalbridge on March 16, 2018, 04:28:55 pm ---Toys R Us has been around since what? ...the 50's? They had 70 years to under their belt and just now they couldn't get their debt sorted out? Pfft....I don't buy it. The timing of EVERYONE shifting to online retail is just too coincidental. Talk to any parent and the last thing they want to do is take their kid into a toy store. LOL! If I can buy my kid a toy from the comfort of my own home on my ipad in the middle of the night, without my kids screaming at me and other kids running around and without paying sales tax and get free shipping...you bet I'm going to do that. It's not like Toys R Us invented toys. It's not like they brought anything proprietary to the toy shopping experience. They just sold the same toy you can get anywhere else and John Q Public finally woke up and figure that out. --- End quote --- Great video explaining how it all went wrong... Skip to the 7 minute mark to get into the issues due to the closure. I will say I am very saddened that my kids wont get the joy I had going to Toys R Us for a treat when I was a kid. But then again, Toys R Us was a bit different in the 80's. |
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