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Post by CWE OWNER on Dec 22, 2017 2:38:00 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2017 10:06:48 GMT -5
I thing you have misread the article, nothing about the article is good news for toys"R"us. This is what you call the beginning off the end
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Post by mattelwwecollector on Dec 22, 2017 13:13:16 GMT -5
Sounds good to me, glad to be fair, hopefully now they learn from their mistakes
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2017 8:01:53 GMT -5
Remind me to never do business with anyone who sees this as good news. They have papered over the cracks as far as the pensions issue goes...this does nothing to alter their long term viability.
Smyths are thriving and expanding all over the place while this lot escape administration by the skin of their teeth and still plan to close stores???
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2017 12:07:20 GMT -5
I cannot believe that they've lasted as long as they have. I feel that they've been having problems ever since the mid-to-late 2000s (old stock being a big one). £5 says that my local Toys R Us is going to be one of those 26 stores.
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Post by mattelwwecollector on Dec 23, 2017 12:35:15 GMT -5
I cannot believe that they've lasted as long as they have. I feel that they've been having problems ever since the mid-to-late 2000s (old stock being a big one). £5 says that my local Toys R Us is going to be one of those 26 stores. Theres a list somewhere of what stores are closing |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2017 15:43:33 GMT -5
Remind me to never do business with anyone who sees this as good news. They have papered over the cracks as far as the pensions issue goes...this does nothing to alter their long term viability. Smyths are thriving and expanding all over the place while this lot escape administration by the skin of their teeth and still plan to close stores??? Yet charge £33 for Kurt angle, £27 for WM Elites, £29 for WM Battlepqcks and have put the retros up to £11. **** Smyths. |
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Post by SteveHulk on Dec 23, 2017 16:56:08 GMT -5
Remind me to never do business with anyone who sees this as good news. They have papered over the cracks as far as the pensions issue goes...this does nothing to alter their long term viability. Smyths are thriving and expanding all over the place while this lot escape administration by the skin of their teeth and still plan to close stores??? Yet charge £33 for Kurt angle, £27 for WM Elites, £29 for WM Battlepqcks and have put the retros up to £11. **** Smyths. ...don't Mattel recommend these prices though (ie. the RRP)? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2017 18:42:11 GMT -5
Remind me to never do business with anyone who sees this as good news. They have papered over the cracks as far as the pensions issue goes...this does nothing to alter their long term viability. Smyths are thriving and expanding all over the place while this lot escape administration by the skin of their teeth and still plan to close stores??? Yet charge £33 for Kurt angle, £27 for WM Elites, £29 for WM Battlepqcks and have put the retros up to £11. **** Smyths. They say history repeats itself, and that could happen here. When Toys R Us hit in the 1980s and 1990s, they came in and were cheap, knocking out all the independent toy stores. Following that, they put their prices up. I remember when Smyths came in around 2007/2008 (I think my local was one of the first U.K. ones), they were much cheaper and had a better selection than Toys R Us. I’m worried, if Toys R Us goes completely, Smyths will just keep increasing their prices. Though they are now competing with online, but manfuctuering and importanting costs are rising. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2017 18:49:44 GMT -5
Yet charge £33 for Kurt angle, £27 for WM Elites, £29 for WM Battlepqcks and have put the retros up to £11. **** Smyths. ...don't Mattel recommend these prices though (ie. the RRP)? To Smyths? I doubt it otherwise Macho Man wouldn’t have been £28? Mattel want to sell these things surely? I think Smyths are just getting greedy in the wake of a lack of brick & mortar competition (other than TRU for the network spotlight stuff). I’m probably wrong though but Smyths have put the price of every line up. It’s why I’ve sold everything and stopped completely, can’t afford it at all anymore, when the retros went above £9.99 that was the final straw for me. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2017 12:20:19 GMT -5
Don't forget the exhange rate plummeted after the EU vote too. That is another reason for creeping costs.
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Post by maske2g on Dec 24, 2017 12:23:36 GMT -5
Don't forget the exhange rate plummeted after the EU vote too. That is another reason for creeping costs. The ONLY reason. |
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Post by Jonny Flashback on Dec 24, 2017 13:38:18 GMT -5
Don't forget the exhange rate plummeted after the EU vote too. That is another reason for creeping costs. The ONLY reason. You told us all to vote leave. All your fault! |
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Post by raz2005uk on Dec 24, 2017 15:46:23 GMT -5
To be fair, TRU took a little time to react to the competition and creeping pressures. Having big warehouse type stores on the outskirts of towns and cities wasn't always going to be an ideal trading situation. They needed to put themselves in the heart of shopping centres and towns a bit quicker.
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Post by hellojoeivers on Dec 24, 2017 16:15:12 GMT -5
To be fair, TRU took a little time to react to the competition and creeping pressures. Having big warehouse type stores on the outskirts of towns and cities wasn't always going to be an ideal trading situation. They needed to put themselves in the heart of shopping centres and towns a bit quicker. Never really thought of that! I guess all the ones I use are a little out of the way. No problem for me as I drive but obviously a nightmare for people using public transport |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2017 16:25:01 GMT -5
" toys r us " lol ..... there's an old saying when a ship is going down the first thing that rushes though the captains brain is fill your pockets with gold and silver ( treble pay rise/ bonus ) they know still have to get to land though ... Smyths lol ... it's Christmas init toy shops make most of there money at this time of year anyway just spoken to nelly she says she will give us a show after christmas you have to nelly no one will go in there just after christmas people will just not have the money she will bring them down....   |
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Post by maske2g on Dec 31, 2017 4:01:31 GMT -5
You told us all to vote leave. All your fault! HAHA I stand by it! Don't worry, America is fooked (Not because of trump, because of the FED's 8 year kamikaze run), they will kill their own currency back to reasonable levels. |
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Post by maske2g on Dec 31, 2017 4:11:54 GMT -5
To be fair, TRU took a little time to react to the competition and creeping pressures. Having big warehouse type stores on the outskirts of towns and cities wasn't always going to be an ideal trading situation. They needed to put themselves in the heart of shopping centres and towns a bit quicker. That's because those warehouses cost a pittance compared to a central store. You don't see B&M, or Pets at home in a high street either. TRU have not reacted quick enough to the web. Their website is consistently 3 years behind the trend. They never have anything in stock. They don't list everything. And most importantly, they don't reduce prices in line with their competition. In the age of the modern consumer, everyone is becoming a bit of a Maven. Which is a great thing for us, because we always know where to find the biggest discounts and the latest stock. I predict these other pop up companies will suffer too. They do not shift the type of volume to compete with places that regularly discount by 40-50%. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2017 11:34:02 GMT -5
Having big warehouse type stores on the outskirts of towns and cities wasn't always going to be an ideal trading situation. They needed to put themselves in the heart of shopping centres and towns a bit quicker.
ya I read that concept to not buying it though smyths are on the outskirts... tru opened a shop in liverpool one don't know if you know it but it's the centre of town prime spot location all the big hitters are there to plus argos another joke lasted about a year that web site sums them up.
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