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Funny you should mention that, because that's exactly what TRU tried to do back in the early 2000s with a small batch of stores branded "Geoffrey's". It was an attempt to make Toys R Us stores more than just aisles of boxes on shelves. There was a snack bar, a party room, an activity center, a babershop, kid's clothing, a playplace, live demos of the latest toys, and events planned pretty much every week, ranging from arts and crafts to Yu-Gi-Oh leagues. And it did pretty well... for about a year or two. Then many of the events stopped, the toy demos were taken down, they play place was closed off and removed, and eventually, the place was converted into a regular TRU.

Sadly you won't be able to find much on them outside of a 15 years-old NPR article. I only know about them because I had one in my town. Point is, they tried what you're suggesting, and it didn't work out like they'd hoped.

Damn... I didn't know the ninja steel line was already doing this bad. We're already a little over half a year and stuffs already on clearance..

They haven't even released the gold morpher yet. At least not where I'm at.

How much of a Ninja Steel clearance are we talking about?

I remember in 1998 or 1999, they talk about how Ebay and Amazon would replace local retail shopping stores in the next decade or later. It sucks to see Toys R Us go down under, but I had a feeling it would happen.

Fuck where am I going to go for Pokémon cards and video games? Theyre like the only store in my area that has any game variety and I'm not driving 2 hours to go to other stores.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-soon-as-today

Well then.

Sad day.

On the one hand there won't a toy store in my local area... On the other hand I'm gonna buy bunch of shit at the inevitable clearance sale.