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Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005
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lugnet.year.2005
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Sun, 20 Feb 2005 22:55:06 GMT
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In lugnet.year.2005, Ray Sanders wrote:
> In lugnet.year.2005, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > If anything I think LEGO is a bit ahead of some other manufacturers in embracing
> > that, although they could go farther. His counterexample was TRU. A giant
> > giraffe has zero appeal to adults, so he was saying TRU was sending the message
> > that they don't validate adults playing with toys. (certainly they have never
> > formally trained their cashiers not to make snide comments...)
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> Interesting observation. In the past ~8 months I have noticed a major change in
> the store-stocking attitude of TRU. Stores which used have shelves oveflowing
> with older stuff are now clean as a whistle. The store directors seem to be more
> communicative than ever before.
Maybe in your location but here in Charleston, SC the TRU employees bring new
meaning to rude and incompetent (so much for so called "southern hospitality")
and the stores are still trying to sell old sets with damaged boxes at full
price.
-Orion
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| (...) Interesting observation. In the past ~8 months I have noticed a major change in the store-stocking attitude of TRU. Stores which used have shelves oveflowing with older stuff are now clean as a whistle. The store directors seem to be more (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005)
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