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prickvixen) wrote2005-01-04 08:44 pm
prickvixen) wrote2005-01-04 08:44 pm
sulking in stores
Yesterday I went to Drug Barn, and there, among the cheap cast plastic toys and crummy stuffed animals, were ten boxes of Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel, still in their shrinkwrap, for 99 cents each.
L'Eggs pantyhose no longer come in plastic eggs... so they no longer have an excuse for that goofy name.
You can no longer buy a Nerf ball by itself, at least not at Toys 'R Us. You have to buy some sort of brightly-colored plastic sporting arena in a box if you happen to want the Nerf ball that comes along with it.
Toys 'R Us also doesn't seem to sell, like, actual toys. By this I mean that you have to look pretty damned hard to find anything that isn't a plastic sculpture or electronic or both. And sometimes they'll sell electronics that you can get in the dollar store for like 1/10 as much. And Toys 'R Us never puts anything on sale... except tie-ins to movies that bombed. So this week we have stuff from Van Helsing, the Hulk movie, and Atlantis in the clearance aisle.
There used to be a Babies 'R Us a few doors down from the Toys R' Us, but they closed it and shoved all its contents into the back of the toy store. How bad do you have to screw up to go out of business when your demographic is people who breed?
L'Eggs pantyhose no longer come in plastic eggs... so they no longer have an excuse for that goofy name.
You can no longer buy a Nerf ball by itself, at least not at Toys 'R Us. You have to buy some sort of brightly-colored plastic sporting arena in a box if you happen to want the Nerf ball that comes along with it.
Toys 'R Us also doesn't seem to sell, like, actual toys. By this I mean that you have to look pretty damned hard to find anything that isn't a plastic sculpture or electronic or both. And sometimes they'll sell electronics that you can get in the dollar store for like 1/10 as much. And Toys 'R Us never puts anything on sale... except tie-ins to movies that bombed. So this week we have stuff from Van Helsing, the Hulk movie, and Atlantis in the clearance aisle.
There used to be a Babies 'R Us a few doors down from the Toys R' Us, but they closed it and shoved all its contents into the back of the toy store. How bad do you have to screw up to go out of business when your demographic is people who breed?
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...not as bad as Dress Barn.
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As far as the death of Babies R Us, I have two words: Baby Gap.