Posted on 04/06/2018 6:58:05 PM PDT by Morgana
BUt they still support Planned Murderhood.
Not any more.
For the following three kids, "Once Upon a Child" and the other "gently used" stores have received most of our business.
It isn't sagging birth rates. It isn't abortion. It's overpriced junk.
Uhhh yeah, you can tell our country is desperately underpopulated by the freeways empty of cars for as far as the eye can see
Internet stores did them in like they’ll do others as well.
99% was made in China.
"...Toys R Us..."
Based on my interaction with them over the years they hired unhelpful clerks, had poorly stocked, dirty stores and checking out turned into "twenty questions".
The last time I went in I was looking to buy over a thousand dollars worth of stuff. They could not be bothered to help me find the games and toys I was looking for. I left and never went back.
Customer service is the life blood of retail. No matter where you set up shop, you are no longer a monopoly.
Really?
Trying to clean up their act after the internet put the fear of bankruptcy into them was too little and thirty years too late.
There is a market for brick and mortar toy stores, but it will be a new company that didn't tarnish it's reputation for decades that will fill the role.
Or it could have been their high prices and run down stores.
Fact is that children’s toys are outrageously expensive. They make toys in China for a $1 and sell them in America for $35.
People buy toys on the used market because of this. Children outgrow toys before the toy is destroyed, so the secondary market is hot.
Yeah. Sure. Nothing to do with the stores being dirty, expensive and rude workers.
Online retail is destroying all “box” retail. Furthermore, customer service is putrid everywhere one shops now. When our daughter was born, a great portion of baby stuff was bought there. If online options were available back then, I would not set foot into any brick and mortar store because of idiocy, ineptitude and disregard from employees and sales tax.
Don’t forget the role minimum wage hikes play. If a biz has to pay through the nose for mediocrity, there’s going to be less money available for more productive employees.
In 2005 Toy R Us was sold to Bain Capital and two other investment firms for $6.6 Billion. Those three firms ponied up about 20% of the purchase cost, borrowed the rest, then saddled Toys R Us with the rest of the debt. Thus, Toys R Us instantly had over $5 Billion in debt and could not do anything to improve itself in the market as it had to service that debt.
Here's why...
Do kids even play outside anymore? Ride bikes for miles like I did when I was a shorty?
Do kids even play board games anymore? Play amateur sports like tether-ball and softball, in which Toys R Us sold many of the accessories?
This is the root cause of Toys R Us demise: The liberalization of American kids.
Toys R Us supported Planned Butcherhood. They have no grounds on which to complain.
Simply, cell phones and computers are the new “toys.”
Don’t think abortion has anything to do with it.
I know they did. But that doesn’t detract from my point.
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