OT: Brandon vows to make Toys R Us experience "more fun"
In addition to closing 180 stores and combining more TRU and BRU stores, Brandon has said that Toys R Us will improve the in-store experience.
He also vowed to make locations easier to shop and more fun, by adding toy demonstrations and other experiences.
Sound familiar?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-24/toys-r-us-to-shut-ab…
(Also, just a note to anyone who might be able to fix it, but site search is completely broken now. When do we get a new site?)
January 24th, 2018 at 6:53 AM ^
Meanwhile, Jeffrey the Giraffe just got a brutal concussion yet was instructed to "keep providing fun!!!"
January 24th, 2018 at 7:33 AM ^
January 24th, 2018 at 9:23 AM ^
please show some respect. It is Geoffrey, not Jeffrey.
January 24th, 2018 at 9:32 AM ^
January 24th, 2018 at 11:39 AM ^
Probably happened driving that convertible around, with the top down, in the snow at Christmas time.
January 24th, 2018 at 12:28 PM ^
at nap time.
thank goodness they can't read yet.
January 24th, 2018 at 7:15 AM ^
January 24th, 2018 at 8:00 AM ^
January 24th, 2018 at 1:52 PM ^
Will it be KID RAWK?
January 24th, 2018 at 7:24 AM ^
January 24th, 2018 at 7:29 AM ^
January 24th, 2018 at 9:36 AM ^
while blasting "Highway to the Danger Zone" at 100 db.
January 24th, 2018 at 11:09 AM ^
to fly over Mattel, Hasbro, et al to write fun, taunting messages over their corporate headquarters.
January 24th, 2018 at 7:42 AM ^
Yes it sounds familar. Just like every other retaiuler these days because no one goes to their stores anymore.
Brandon is just one of those guys who might be "smart," but has zero emotional intelligence or creativity. He doesn't seem to have an original idea in him...and if he does, its probably a bad one at that. He's so entrenched in the "club" with his money and connections that he will continute to receive opportunities that allow him to "fail forward."
January 24th, 2018 at 7:50 AM ^
My promise to the consumer is that we will try our best to prevent those nasty children from roaming our aisles and give you the best possible shopping experience. The Wow! factor will blow you away.
January 24th, 2018 at 10:30 AM ^
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January 24th, 2018 at 10:52 AM ^
I couldn't resist...
January 24th, 2018 at 10:51 AM ^
Quite the career arc... Dominoes > Michigan > Toy's-R-Us > auditioning for the role of Mayor Humdinger on Paw Patrol Live?
January 24th, 2018 at 9:14 AM ^
January 24th, 2018 at 11:12 AM ^
kind of defeats the red sign example.
January 24th, 2018 at 9:24 AM ^
January 24th, 2018 at 12:09 PM ^
The biggest problem with brick and mortar stores is that there are way too many of them in the United States.
In 2015—the most recent year with comparable data available—the US had about 23.6 sq ft of retail space per person available, according to estimates from PwC. As the Financial Times reported (paywall), that’s more than twice the amount in Australia, and roughly five times that of the UK and other European countries.
January 24th, 2018 at 4:09 PM ^
In all the countries I've travelled around there, you see ALOT less retail than most locations here. In the U.S. I've seen some ridiculously overbuilt retail areas, and of course you see a lot of vacancy signs.
January 24th, 2018 at 1:55 PM ^
Smart enough to convince people to keep giving him million dollar salaries? Yes. Smart enough to succeed or actually do anything meaningful in those roles? No. So I'm not sure if he's smart or the people that hire him are just suckers.
January 24th, 2018 at 7:56 AM ^
has become the Amazon showroom for 7 year olds, just like Best Buy is for adults.
January 24th, 2018 at 8:10 AM ^
January 24th, 2018 at 9:14 AM ^
January 24th, 2018 at 10:28 AM ^
Brick and mortar stores just can't compete on price for most items. If amazon starts delivering groceries and weed I'll never leave the house.
January 24th, 2018 at 10:39 AM ^
January 24th, 2018 at 10:55 AM ^
Figured you'd be a home grower.
January 24th, 2018 at 1:57 PM ^
Best Buy actually has somewhat competitive pricing on high ticket items, as long as Amazon charges sales tax in your state and you sign up for the Best Buy credit card so that you get the 5% back. If you catch the right sale, I've gotten things there for less than Amazon actually.
January 24th, 2018 at 7:57 AM ^
Brandon is quoted in the article as saying, "the company has made operational mistakes that need to be fixed." Unfortunately, with Brandon, the cure is always worse than the disease.
January 24th, 2018 at 7:59 AM ^
January 24th, 2018 at 8:06 AM ^
He can, for me, only do that by leaving.
January 24th, 2018 at 8:07 AM ^
January 24th, 2018 at 8:08 AM ^
Step 2: ?
Step 3: profit
January 24th, 2018 at 8:15 AM ^
Like a "Cut down your own basketball net experience"?
January 24th, 2018 at 8:24 AM ^
January 24th, 2018 at 11:12 AM ^
to a toys r us to buy a toy for his friends bday party. He said he really liked the place.
I do get the sentiment though. Growing up in Holland, the closest Toys-R-Us was in Grand Rapids. I still remember the couple trips we took there and seeing the wall of Star Wars toys. It was such a huge experience. In comparison, the local Meijers only had one or two aisles of toys at the time.
January 24th, 2018 at 4:15 PM ^
I'd ever seen on Telegraph Rd. in the early 70's. I was starting to get out of the toy phase at that point, but it was still incredible to see aisle after aisle of toys and games of all kinds. It was really one of the very first so-called big box "category killers". They helped lead to the demise of the small Mom and Pop toy stores that prevailed before that.
January 24th, 2018 at 8:34 AM ^
January 24th, 2018 at 8:56 AM ^
I hear he's going to hire a skywriter to fly over Amazon's corporate headquarters and write "Go TrU"
January 24th, 2018 at 9:26 AM ^
January 24th, 2018 at 8:38 AM ^
I don' t know about others, but I have moved on from that loser. Why people keep discussing the man is beyond me. The guy was fired. Just move on.
January 24th, 2018 at 11:02 AM ^
Chill out Jr. This is some funny shit and there isn't much else to talk about.
btw, Screw the Detroit Free Press.