Toys R Us -- ruining a company is very lucrative

OneofOne

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I was hoping to pick up some Legos, maybe some Nerf guns and some books, but at this rate...
 

Chris

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I went into my local Toys R Us and found pretty much only Star Wars toys, they had two aisles full of lightsabres. They must have thought they were going to be big.

I was thinking about buying some Lego but they only had Girls Lego and DC Comics Lego left. No video games remaining at all.

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Alex

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Are some of y'all on this forum still rocking Nokia camera phones or something? Or do we have a high Parkinson's population here?
 
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ZyyzYzzy

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Are some of y'all on this forum still rocking Nokia camera phones or something? Or do we have a high Parkinson's population here?
Clearly that is a photo taken by a neckbeard that has constantly greasy fingers and thus grease all over his phone's camera

Also, stopped by ors this week. 5% off legos, I laughed.
 
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Malakriss

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Are some of y'all on this forum still rocking Nokia camera phones or something? Or do we have a high Parkinson's population here?
Still rocking a Galaxy III, on the 2nd battery for it though. Then again I have other devices to do things more involved than texting.
 
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Chris

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Clearly that is a photo taken by a neckbeard that has constantly greasy fingers and thus grease all over his phone's camera

Also, stopped by ors this week. 5% off legos, I laughed.
Haha I actually checked my camera, it's pristine. I have a folding wallet thing around the phone which covers the camera 99% of the time.

I surprising didn't put too much effort into taking a picture of unsold rose and hux figures in a children's toy store.
 
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Chanur

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i saw 5% at mine, didn't bother to walk around the whole store, fuck that.
I went and saw the same thing. 5% and the big sales were 10%. Also realized they don't really have anything I would want.
 

OneofOne

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Buddy told me they had a 30% off banner at our local store, so I stopped by late last night. Turns out it was "up to" 30% off. In reality, I never saw a single discount that high. Everything was 10% off, except Legos/Duplos at 5% off. Mind you, this is 5% off of MSRP - something almost no one else prices Legos at. So, my local Toys R Us STILL has not hit Target/Walmart prices.

Then we decided to see what they had for kids furniture for giggles, and even at 10% off that shit was still so overpriced. Shit is mind bottling.
 

OneofOne

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A month later...

Took my son to my local store like the scavengers we are. Whole store is 30% off, and they have every shelf, cabinet, etc also tagged with prices. Legos are still 15% off, which still isn't as low as most other places.

No wonder they are going out of business.
 
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Lanx

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30% everything, 5% off consoles, i have to come back later to find a manager to buy the pegboards

this toysrus is ghetto, they don't have nintendo pegboards, about the best i can find is skylanders pegboards? i guess that could still be cool.
 

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just bought two RC Cars and their batteries for $57 and change (above my comfort level) - Haven't opened one (a present) but son broke his in 10 minutes or less (but he was being rough).
Should I return it?
I'm in an emotional tug of war with lazy vs. cheap.
 

Lanx

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just bought two RC Cars and their batteries for $57 and change (above my comfort level) - Haven't opened one (a present) but son broke his in 10 minutes or less (but he was being rough).
Should I return it?
I'm in an emotional tug of war with lazy vs. cheap.
all sales final?
 

OneofOne

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You know they are going out of business right? No returns.
 
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Conefed

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yeah figured even if they did accept.. poor taste?
I would have traded it for something else of equal value - my gut was to get metal car that could either be played with or kept on display. But 4yo insisted RC...
 

OneofOne

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This evening my 5 yo son busted our little tiny RC drone we had, on 3rd day of play. I feel like there's a lesson to be learned here...
 
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Lanx

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This evening my 5 yo son busted our little tiny RC drone we had, on 3rd day of play. I feel like there's a lesson to be learned here...
what kind of cheap ass shitty RC shits you guys are buying? I know my RC car is amazing, b/c i bought it for my dog to chase and he bit that thing and threw it around and it still ran like a champ. Hmmm actually i think i bought mine from Radio Shack 10 years ago...
 
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just bought two RC Cars and their batteries for $57 and change (above my comfort level) - Haven't opened one (a present) but son broke his in 10 minutes or less (but he was being rough).
Should I return it?
I'm in an emotional tug of war with lazy vs. cheap.

Return it.

The company is going out of business, if you're ever going to take advantage of a return policy this is the time. You aren't hurting the store employees, they're already losing their job.
 
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