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    GFLTC Display at TRU —Robin Werner
   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) ! 
   
        Re: GFLTC Display at TRU —Rick Clark
     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)
    
         Re: GFLTC Display at TRU —Robin Werner
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: GFLTC Display at TRU —Rick Clark
     (...) And...? Rick C <waiting with bated breath...> (23 years ago, 13-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.gflug)
   
        Re: GFLTC Display at TRU —Kung-Khoon Quah
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: GFLTC Display at TRU —Chris Leach
     (...) 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)
   
        Re: GFLTC Display at TRU —Rick Clark
   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)
   
        Re: GFLTC Display at TRU —Kung-Khoon Quah
   (...) 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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