The Rise And Fall Of Toys R Us

1. I wonder if there isn't a less superficial and more profound strategic basis than offered here…
   It is said, "Price is what customers think about when you don't give them anything else to think about."
   I attribute the core reason for the failure of the Toys R Us executive management team. It appears they were operationally strong retailers, completely lacking in strategic marketing skills!
   The blame for failure is really due to the inability to know and respond to the changing market segments, a lack of innovation, and ignorance of changing customer needs, wants and expectations.
   Their stores remained the same, replicates of a Walmart layout. There was no USP. Grumpy stockkeepers, unengaged cashiers and an absence of floor management spelt disaster long before it happened.
   You'd have to be blind Freddy or just a poor strategic marketer to objectively experience a Toys’R’Us store in the latter years and not be objective.
   Ignoring the professional incompetence of their executive team and senior management, low levels of customer centricity and poor or absent market research is ignoring the cause and trying to find answers in the symptoms.
   Had they had a switched-on and appropriate leadership, the chain would be vibrantly performing today!

2. For people wondering Yes, Toys R Us is back in Im pretty sure Macys but I went recently 💗

3. Hi Macy's mall toys r us toys store is in Macy's mall and buy toys in north American is already open toys r us please visit them in 2023 this year 😊🎉

4. Bain Capital is why KB Toys went under and caused TRU's downfall until it got saved by Macy's.

5. Technology killed toys r us

6. Sad day for the resellers.

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8. I’m actually about ready to cry

9. Smartphones. That’s it.

10. I'd prefer going to an outlet to buy the toys. Buying them online is way too expensive. It's maddening.

11. toys r us is back at macys'
    
    please give an update as its been 5+ years

12. Why was toys r us coming to an end

13. What killed Toys R Us? How about the fact that it's a company targeted at kids and some how adult toy collectors were keeping it afloat chasing nostalgia. While the targeted demographic was shifting away from playing with toys to having their innocence being taken away from by government hidden agendas. While at the same time instead of Exercising their imagination and creativity they sit on a small screen for endless hours on social media. Don't believe me it's a government hidden agenda? You take a look at the 80s and 90s the golden years for toys and you look back at the franchises the pushed those toys what was one thing that they all had in common? SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS and Weekday afternoon cartoons and what was on for front of the decline of toys? THE decline of Staurday morning and After-school Cartoons and who is responsible for the lack of cartoons on both Saturday and After-school? The government

14. 3:44 i liked that Toys R Us store
    

15. A leveraged buyout/parasites plunging businesses into debt to buy them without paying for them. They had to service a huge debt out nowhere and so couldn't invest to adapt.

16. when i was little almost every birthday someone would get me a toys R Us gift card and i would have the time of my life there now its replaced by spirit Halloween or a stupid mattress store

17. Man they have some toys r us in some Macy's but like toys r us isn't the same as back then when you would go in they're and feel like a kid

18. this aged well

19. HO

20. 2017 when toysrus is open
    2018 when toysrus is closed forever

    2019 remove the logo
    2020 two toysrus
    2021 two toysrus
    2022 two toysrus
    2023 one toysrus

21. Wish there was one of these mallgeville ga mall with a build a bear 😮😊

22. There was no fall of toys r us. It's alive and well.

23. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

24. This was part of my homework assignment🥲

25. There becomes too much civilisation as said by Marx and Engels in communist manifesto,it becomes antagonist with existence of labouring force

26. Abortion and contraception. That's what killed it. Or rather, what they supported when the company donated to Planned Parenthood.

27. Toys r us was a big part of my childhood 🙁 R.I.P Toys r us

28. RIP Toys R Us

29. it's not really rocket science. Kids in this day and age are just not as interested in toys as they used to be. What's more, the stores were overly expensive and you can find anything from toys r us online for cheaper.

30. When amazon came along it put major strain on many companies many consumers just went online to get what they wanted & wound up having the companies closing their doors for good, problem today is when you cant find what you need in the stores out there that are yet around you wind up having no choice but to buy from amazon or ebay & other online sites I personally try to never buy from amazon less its a must being no one had what I was looking for.

31. I have fond memories going to toys r us back in like 1998 and excited because I knew I was going to get some more Pokémon cards 🤣

32. maybe if they started creating their own toy brands , It would not have ended that way. Toys R Us always had a better customer experience for kids.

33. No because they’re coming back in the future

34. Not made in USA keep buying from china from amazones

35. Toys Were Us

36. i remember the times square one. it was like a theme park. so sad its gone

37. it is sad to hear toysrus in decline …… maybe toys are not limited to children. adults still find their own toys which are most likely DIY home cnc machines and 3D printers. i would go for changing toysrus to sell more arrays of sales to adults but not limited to kids. i am big fan of toysrus since i was a kid seeing a Homealone movie showing me that kevin went to a toysrus shop in Timesquare NY. it has been one of my dreams to pay a visit to it. and i finally became young adults who want to establish global toy business in a decade

38. We're back!

39. It's just sad how the giffair had a suitcase and saying good bye but now its open its in amercain dream mall in new york

40. Now it's coming back in the next few months to the UK.

41. Good bye we will miss you I rember you in my child hood

42. It was alittle expensive shooping there after a few

43. Cool 😎

44. I remember coming home from kindergarten and my parents taking me to toys r us and me being thrilled my local toys r us shut down and got replaced by a Aldi whenever me and my family drive past it it brings me back memories online shopping and video aren’t the same as in person

45. I use to love Toys R us and then to hear they were shutting broke my little heart I use to go there all the time and now not seeing it in buisness I hate it R.I.P Toys R us we will miss you 🙁

46. toys Rus

47. Toys r us is the best store!!!!!!!

48. I believe Walmart killed Toy R Us, Toy R Us was here before Walmart.

49. This aged really bad

50. Well now it's back 😎

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