The main takeaway … (from Antonio Urcelay, CEO, Toys”R”Us, Inc., and Hank Mullany, President). Over the past several months, we have undertaken a comprehensive analysis and diagnosis of the business, and believe we have four main issues to resolve – improve the customer experience in-store and online, make progress on changing price perception, put disciplines back […]

The Toys R Us Holiday “pop-up” temporary TRU EXPRESS stores are open around the country. It seems the 2013 Toys R Us Express stores are all or mostly located in outlet malls – there might be some exceptions but it seems to be the case. For some reason, TRU does not list them in their […]

As noted by Mashable (and bond rating companies), Toys R Us has been piling on debt from its investment holders – normally, they cash out by doing another IPO but in the case of TRU, the numbers behind the numbers are pretty weak so this Christmas might be a tipping point. At best, TRU declares […]

TRU is having a nice sale this week – like a rollback to 2006 – 2 CARS singles for $5 – at TRU includes Radiator Springs Classic and any other singles you can find on the shelf. You “should” be able to price match at Walmart and Target. Of course, you could run into a […]

TRU is having a nice sale through Saturday – buy one CARS or PLANES item and get 50% off the second item … it doesn’t have to be the the same type … you get 50% off the cheaper item so you can buy a 2-pack and a single or a track set and a […]

“Mariela P.” spotted these at TRU. I believe this is the way they first delivered air mail, they would fly over and toss the bag from the bi-plane … so as a tribute to aviation days of yore – lumpy style! I might ask for a discount. So, this looks like the first case assortment, […]

There is a $1 singles diecast sale at Toys R Us running through Saturday. It includes CARS 2 Porto Corsa cards, CARS “Themes 2013” singles AND CARS “Themes 2013” Check Lane cards … so that’s nice … Of course, the two stores I went to had Lightning & Francesco. Radiator Springs Classics are NOT on […]

The good news is there is an in-scale Sally Cozy Cone Motel play set … it does however come as part of a ginormous townie Radiator Springs play set that looks like fun for kids but only facade deep in places. The best piece is Sally’s Cozy Cone Motel – it comes with a “launcher” […]

According to Reuters, the CEO of Toys R Us has stepped down but will remain as Chairman. The executive in question, Gerald Storch, is a former Target exec as well. One wonders just how much the poor stocking assortments that have appeared for Cars had to do with the decision. 🙂 This quote from the […]

Possible variant alert from “Wraukn.” There is a version of Mater Hawk with dark shades … I have not seen one in a while so anyone else spot this? Error or variant? Side by side with typical release. McQueen Hawk looks to be the same … Thanks, “wraukn.” So, anyone spot the dark shades version?