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Well they gotta send it somewhere here in America. We actually found that last G4 Toys “R” Us exclusive, those birthday packs, over in overstock stores called Ross dress for less. Was the only place we managed to see it since we don’t have Toys “R” Us anymore. (technically a few shops have popped up here in the states now, but it’s debatable if they actually are Toys “R” Us or some sort of marketing scheme. It’s complicated.)
I watched a video on YouTube about how they were going to try to revive Toys R Us starting with a few stores at a time.
So it IS better now, we have a few stores that are permanent, some of them are small, some of them are like in the American dream mall which is the New York/New Jersey’s area answer to the mall of America with a lot of really huge big things like amusement park rides. But when they did first try in late December 2019, there was a lot of talk about how they were filming you in the store because they wanted to see what toys your kids were playing with and doing marketing research. That has always stuck with me. I found an article from the time period but it was annoying because some of them are pay walled which a lot of new sites do these days unfortunately and I think this is a good one:I watched a video on YouTube about how they were going to try to revive Toys R Us starting with a few stores at a time.
Should be legit stores but I’m curious about the complicated information you have? Why are you thinking marketing scheme? Did I miss a controversy?
I’m hoping what I watched was true, I miss Toys R Us
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Parts of your story made me laugh a bit and also it made me angry, filming children should be illegal nationwide. If I found out my daughter was being filmed without my knowledge I’d be livid.So it IS better now, we have a few stores that are permanent, some of them are small, some of them are like in the American dream mall which is the New York/New Jersey’s area answer to the mall of America with a lot of really huge big things like amusement park rides. But when they did first try in late December 2019, there was a lot of talk about how they were filming you in the store because they wanted to see what toys your kids were playing with and doing marketing research. That has always stuck with me. I found an article from the time period but it was annoying because some of them are pay walled which a lot of new sites do these days unfortunately and I think this is a good one:
Toys "R" Us says tech used to spy on shoppers ignores kids
The retailer has risen from the ashes of bankruptcy with a surveillance system in tow.
It’s always sad when I pass by one that’s a store that used to obviously be a Toys “R” Us here in America. In fact one of our favorite overstock stores, Ollies, has at least two locations we know of that our former Toys “R” Us is. If I had a nickel for every time that happened, I would have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
Anyway I do think they dropped the marketing business model because it was not met well, and a year or two later I think is when they really started talking about children’s privacy when it comes to being filmed so I’m not even sure if it’s legal to do that in many jurisdictions but I don’t know anymore. That’s well beyond my knowledge.
I sadly haven’t been in a Toys “R” Us but once since they folded. My fiancé managed to go a second time, but they didn’t believe him when he said he was crossing the border in order to go to a TRU and detained him until after closing time and he had to try again the next day >.<
Yeah when I use the word “detain“ I mean they stopped him from crossing the border and questioned him a little longer, it wasn’t like they cuffed him and brought him down to a police station or anything. It’s just when you cross the border and they ask you the question about your reason for a visit, they didn’t quite believe him. It was very annoying for us that night and I wasn’t even there at the time, he ended up calling me later to tell me what happened.
