[Trivial Psychic]

Quote:

Originally Posted by goliathfasa

The silver lining here maybe that we no longer have to deal with those awful TRU exclusives that just never show up in stores, preorders that are canceled, or the inevitably doubled/tripled prices on secondary markets.

Small victory. Better than nothing.

This might be the single most ignorant thing I have ever read here.

I've had just as many bad experiences with the massive box stores like Target, Costco and Walmart as anywhere else. You can't wear rose colored glasses on this, because TRU is not the only retailer of ever being guilty of those things.

If you really think that TRU going away is a good thing, and that it won't hurt the industry at a whole...I just ask you to to remember what the toy departments in Walmarts and Targets looked like back in 2007, because it was about a year later that those stores started scaling their toy departments back because they realized that TRU was no longer going to be a legitimate threat to their sales numbers. There were twice as many aisles full of toys at my local Walmarts and Targets as there are now, and I've watched them gradually become smaller and smaller as the years have gone by.

The truth is, a lot of major retailers look at toys in general as a dead money, and if they had their way, would get rid of them altogether to expand their other more valuable commodities like grocery and electronics. I used to work in retail, and remember having arguments with management over it. Even TRU believed this to a point when they tried to push their floundering Babies R' Us brand into their stores devoted to toys, cutting their showroom space in half. With TRU gone, there's no real viable competition (except among themselves) and well...now they got that green light to do so.