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| LUGNETers, The Greater Florida LEGO Train Club and Users Group will have a display at Toys R Us, Saturday, June 30, 2001 in Tampa, Florida. Address: Toys R Us 1702 N. Dale Mabry Hwy. Tampa, FL 33607 Display Hours: 10am - 7pm This will be a free form (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.org.us.gflug) !
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| Wow, very cool. Was that difficult to arrange, or did you just go up to the manager and say, "Hey, mind if we come set up our LEGO trains for a few hours?" If you can, please count the number of train sets TRU has in stock before you start, and see (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.org.us.gflug)
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| (...) It was not difficult, we just talk to the manager, basically as you said. (...) That is exactly what we plan to do... (...) I am too... I will post some numbers after the event. See Ya... Robin Werner - GFLTC www.gfltc.org (23 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.org.us.gflug)
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| (...) And...? Rick C <waiting with bated breath...> (23 years ago, 13-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.gflug)
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| (...) OK here are the sales numbers for the TRU when GFLTC/GFLUG put up an indoor display there on June 30, 2001 A couple of caveats. It took a while to get to a manager who could access sales and I did not want to take up too much time so he was (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.gflug)
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| (...) Thanks KK for the info.Like we talked about at that McDonalds at Brickfest I wanted to be able to take some numbers to a Toys R US around here in order to ask to display.I was discussing at our train show yesterday that there's a Toys R Us a (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.gflug)
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| Thanks for the update. Those are good numbers! A 10% hit in a TRU is probably a surprisingly high dollar figure (anyone worked for TRU that can give us an average Saturday take?). My main question, though, is: Did they sell any LEGO train sets due (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.gflug)
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| (...) The TRU did not sell any trains. Also, the sales numbers I used is store-wide for 3 consective Saturdays. The manager mentioned that breaking out Lego only sales for a single day was too difficult for him. And since you did ask directly and (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.gflug)
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