Toys R Us (Or: Die, Dinosaur, Die!)

[Jeff]

Looks like TRU is heading to the malls for Christmas with 80 new "Holiday Express" stores.  Sounds like they want to capture the mall holiday sales since KB is gone and retail space is dirt cheap right now thanks to the economy.

It will be interesting to see if it helps them generate new sales or if it just sucks away some sales from their regular stores...

[BillCable]

If their prices aren't ridiculous like KB's were they should do well.

[Keonobi]

TRU also bought up the naming rights for KB Toys.  One of their Holiday Express stores is going to be in a local mall in a space that was occupied by KB, I wonder if they'll use that brand in that same space, or if they bought it up for another purpose...

[Nicklab]

I found one of these stores in a shopping center that used to have a KayBee.  It's a different location from where KayBee had been, but around the same ammount of floor space as KayBee.  But the stock situation is less than a KayBee store would've had.

The funny thing is that the location they're at used to be another toy store, albeit many moons ago.  Anyone remember TSW Toy & Sports Warehouse?

[Dressel Rebel]

I found one of these stores in a shopping center that used to have a KayBee.  It's a different location from where KayBee had been, but around the same ammount of floor space as KayBee.  But the stock situation is less than a KayBee store would've had.

The funny thing is that the location they're at used to be another toy store, albeit many moons ago.  Anyone remember TSW Toy & Sports Warehouse?

Yup, Ramsey/Mahwah NJ.  I didn't know that became a TRU or if that's even the location you're talking about, I'm not in Rockland/North NJ much anymore.  But I have an early childhood memory of going there when I was 6 years old in 1983ish and getting the Max Rebo band set by Kenner.  I remember it clear as day.

[iFett]

Death:

[Master_Phruby]

OMG, they killed the little red X Geoffrey. Those bastards!

[iFett]

TRU GIRAFFE DIES

hopefully that's better than my red x   

[Jesse James]

Looks like TRU is heading to the malls for Christmas with 80 new "Holiday Express" stores.  Sounds like they want to capture the mall holiday sales since KB is gone and retail space is dirt cheap right now thanks to the economy.

It will be interesting to see if it helps them generate new sales or if it just sucks away some sales from their regular stores...

I can't imagine they're going to do badly with this...

The best months KB every had were November to about January-ish every year...  They were the only months the store ever did well.  I think this is probably the smartest move though that TRU could make.  Pay some employees briefly, probably not well, and catch all that traffic in the malls that need toys for the holidays...  Target and Wal-Mart have to compete by pricing only then...  TRU has a lot of advantages with this I think.  Kudos to them for thinking outside the box.