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Originally Posted by Tomax

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...

This argument might hold weight if Toys R Us didn't already cater to collectors more than virtually any other store(s) out there EXCEPT possibly Barnes and Noble and Books-a-Million, and those don't often carry particularly good quantities of mainstream lines outside of Funko Pops. And you know what all three stores/companies have in common? They're struggling to compete with Amazon.

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.