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I'm skeptical and disappointed by this. After Bain Capital sucked everything out of it It could and then drove it into the ground, they want to use our nostalgic feelings to relaunch? What a slap in the face to all the workers, especially those to whom it was a career. To me Toys r us is now in the past, if they ever did expand and eventually come back to my city I don't think it would make any difference to me. The vulture capitalism of Bain Capital on both Toys r us and KB toys just leaves me feeling disgusted
Quote from: SaraMari on June 22, 2019, 04:20:38 AMI'm skeptical and disappointed by this. After Bain Capital sucked everything out of it It could and then drove it into the ground, they want to use our nostalgic feelings to relaunch? What a slap in the face to all the workers, especially those to whom it was a career. To me Toys r us is now in the past, if they ever did expand and eventually come back to my city I don't think it would make any difference to me. The vulture capitalism of Bain Capital on both Toys r us and KB toys just leaves me feeling disgustedI'm really sorry I should have known there was another side to it.
Quote from: gemini_pony on June 23, 2019, 01:30:09 PMQuote from: SaraMari on June 23, 2019, 06:27:39 AMQuote from: banditpony on June 22, 2019, 03:46:32 PM Bain capital doesn't own it now.Thanks for mentioning that, that makes sense, of course they sold off everything including the "brand value" type of assets. Still I do feel disgusted by what happened and even if it comes back it won't be the same, but overall it will be good to have an actual toy store againQuote from: gemini_pony on June 23, 2019, 06:09:38 AMI could honestly care less. They became overpriced and I was glad the one here went under. The managment sucked and the employees were rude. I think the stores stopped being worth going toI never blame retail employees for being rude, having worked many retail jobs myself including Toys R Us haha!it's unwise to wish the demise of stores. We have already lost many major chains and stores, We have less and less options and certain business move closer and closer to monoply statusI worked retail most of my life. I sure will blame them for being rude. They just were lazy and didn't want to answer questions or help people. The stores all sucked and I stopped going years ago because of that. Edit: I know they have exclusives which I never bought because of the area mine was in it was even more over priced that most. So the employees at YOUR locations were mean, and yeah I get why you wouldn't want to shop at a place that was so negative. That doesn't mean that they were mean everywhere, nor does it mean that they would be mean at a new store. New stores in areas are good. It means more opportunity for jobs (even seasonal is fine because some people need extra money for the holidays). And that touches everywhere from just the area the stores are in, logistics / supply chains, toy companies (like little tykes, where now hardly any of their stuff IS in stores). I hope it works out. I hope that it might land more permanent stores and expand. More brick and mortar stores are good for locals. I just don't see how people can not care about that. Old TRU was a sinking ship. It obviously sucked for a lot of people. But there's NOTHING wrong with trying to start over again. :/
Quote from: SaraMari on June 23, 2019, 06:27:39 AMQuote from: banditpony on June 22, 2019, 03:46:32 PM Bain capital doesn't own it now.Thanks for mentioning that, that makes sense, of course they sold off everything including the "brand value" type of assets. Still I do feel disgusted by what happened and even if it comes back it won't be the same, but overall it will be good to have an actual toy store againQuote from: gemini_pony on June 23, 2019, 06:09:38 AMI could honestly care less. They became overpriced and I was glad the one here went under. The managment sucked and the employees were rude. I think the stores stopped being worth going toI never blame retail employees for being rude, having worked many retail jobs myself including Toys R Us haha!it's unwise to wish the demise of stores. We have already lost many major chains and stores, We have less and less options and certain business move closer and closer to monoply statusI worked retail most of my life. I sure will blame them for being rude. They just were lazy and didn't want to answer questions or help people. The stores all sucked and I stopped going years ago because of that. Edit: I know they have exclusives which I never bought because of the area mine was in it was even more over priced that most.
Quote from: banditpony on June 22, 2019, 03:46:32 PM Bain capital doesn't own it now.Thanks for mentioning that, that makes sense, of course they sold off everything including the "brand value" type of assets. Still I do feel disgusted by what happened and even if it comes back it won't be the same, but overall it will be good to have an actual toy store againQuote from: gemini_pony on June 23, 2019, 06:09:38 AMI could honestly care less. They became overpriced and I was glad the one here went under. The managment sucked and the employees were rude. I think the stores stopped being worth going toI never blame retail employees for being rude, having worked many retail jobs myself including Toys R Us haha!it's unwise to wish the demise of stores. We have already lost many major chains and stores, We have less and less options and certain business move closer and closer to monoply status
Bain capital doesn't own it now.
I could honestly care less. They became overpriced and I was glad the one here went under. The managment sucked and the employees were rude. I think the stores stopped being worth going to