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12-19-2017, 07:37 PM | #26 |
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is this where i say: i told you so. TRU should cater to the collectors instead of kiddie stuff. Collectors are the backbone of TRU but yet they dont cater to us? they just maybe add half of aisle to us and thats it. people who buy kiddie toys just go in to the store maybe once a month, where the Collector goes 3 times a month and actually buys something. Collectors worry less about prices compared to the kiddie shopper. sure everybody wants a good deal but the Collectors knows some figures will be high in price and they still buy it...ive always had a love/hate relationship with TRU, its like hit or miss with the stuff you are looking for. for example: after the million times i go to TRU, ive only seen Masterpiece stuff one freaking time. the upside is that online sites will do better and LCS as well if TRU is a goner...
For myself, I usually don't go to TRU at Christmastime because I don't have children to buy for. The local store doesn't stock "new" stuff all that often so I only visit maybe 1-2 times a month, and most of my trips are just to have a look, without planning to buy anything (even if I find something I want). I also dislike their markup on Lego, which limits my purchases on that except during sales. (I also think some of the hard-to-find toy stock at the comic shop in the mall across the street comes from TRU, since someone from there could go over anytime they want. But it's part of a chain so maybe not.) |
12-19-2017, 07:49 PM | #27 |
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wrong. you are talking about babies r us then. people buy toys for kids not babies, not that much atleast, maybe some learning toys. video games and toys/Collectibles are about the same in terms of profitability.
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12-19-2017, 07:53 PM | #28 |
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Ours does too, except during Christmas time. They expand the toy section and just have tons of oldish, but still kinda recent toys... it is like going to Kaybee almost. Plus, you really don't know what toys will show up there, so that is kinda fun I guess.
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12-19-2017, 08:44 PM | #29 |
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GTA 5 grossed one billion dollars in sales revenue within three days of launch. I have yet to see a toy (or scarcely anything else, for that matter) move those types of numbers. Hey, I like toys too...however, the facts make a liar of your theory as it regards the toys vs vidya' games argument.
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12-19-2017, 11:05 PM | #30 |
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GTA 5 grossed one billion dollars in sales revenue within three days of launch. I have yet to see a toy (or scarcely anything else, for that matter) move those types of numbers. Hey, I like toys too...however, the facts make a liar of your theory as it regards the toys vs vidya' games argument.
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12-20-2017, 05:23 AM | #31 |
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The sales metrics are easily found online. Projected global sales for the toy industry stands at roughly $87bn in revenue, whereas the gaming industry is forecasted out at $108bn for 2017. Those figures are not interchangeable and represent a significant difference...in fact, that's a twenty percent increase in favor of the gaming industry. To add perspective to the numbers: if your employer told you that they were going decrease your salary by 20%, would you remark that it was all good because the change in rate-of-pay was nominal (or "interchangeable") comparative to what you previously enjoyed?
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12-20-2017, 07:23 AM | #32 |
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12-20-2017, 07:25 AM | #33 |
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The store in North Charleston SC suffers from NO INSTOCKitis as well. And zoning and merchandising is not priority one at this location. It's a shame too, because the people at the store are great and it is in a good location. If they close this one there will be a lot of 2 hour car trips to Columbia and Myrtle Beach.
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12-20-2017, 02:14 PM | #34 |
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This is true of places like Target as well, infants all around are just a huge money maker. |
12-20-2017, 08:35 PM | #35 |
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They used to have like clearance bins... things that were 99.99 dollars would be 15.99... i remember buying the WWF Titan Tron... when WWF wasn't WWE... now they hardly have clearance bins cause everything looks like in need of Clearance... there's never new stuff because old stuff never get sold...and its a problem with the old stuff cause the toy manufacturers who make them make toys that are pretty hard to sell... prime example... Iron Man 3 action figures and TFA figures... there used to be the Power of the Jedi line where collector or child would buy.. now with the 6inch black series... the 3 3/4 black series.. the build a weapon series.. the single card series... the 6 inch non black series (no accessories?)... the bust series... the figure 2 pack series... How on Earth is TRU suppose to sell all that junk? Toy Manufacturers should take back all their junk toys...
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12-21-2017, 04:41 AM | #36 |
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is this where i say: i told you so. TRU should cater to the collectors instead of kiddie stuff. Collectors are the backbone of TRU but yet they dont cater to us? they just maybe add half of aisle to us and thats it. people who buy kiddie toys just go in to the store maybe once a month, where the Collector goes 3 times a month and actually buys something. Collectors worry less about prices compared to the kiddie shopper. sure everybody wants a good deal but the Collectors knows some figures will be high in price and they still buy it...ive always had a love/hate relationship with TRU, its like hit or miss with the stuff you are looking for. for example: after the million times i go to TRU, ive only seen Masterpiece stuff one freaking time. the upside is that online sites will do better and LCS as well if TRU is a goner...
Going "all-in" on collectors has never saved a big-box business. Besides, I'm kind of curious as to what you think "catering to collectors" would mean in this context? Always having that one thing you're looking for in stock? Never gonna happen, especially if you live in a competitive neighborhood for scalpers/collectors. And if you overproduce/over-order items to the point that they're always on shelves, they're no longer hot items...they're pegwarmers, and now they're as much part of the problem as those Constable Zuvio figures. |
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