Re:Amazon Has Considered Buying Some Toys ‘R’ Us Stores
by mox1 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @11:53AM
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Their current business model is (was?) to price everything in the store 5-20% higher than elsewhere, but then offer coupons, sales, etc. to offset that.
When our daughter was born we price compared them for a lot of big ticket items, but ultimately just bought online or at Target / Walmart.
A few times a year they have a good deal on something (again with coupons) so we purchase, but walking into the store blind shopping is basically just paying a 15% corporate convenience fee.
If they were price competitive with others, I would have stopped in there a lot more, but oh well.
Re:Amazon Has Considered Buying Some Toys ‘R’ Us Stores
by filoleg on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @12:13PM
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Their abhorrent aka non-existent return policies too. I am not a serial returner, but the inability to do so doesn't help in their favor when I am making a decision on where to buy.
Re:Amazon Has Considered Buying Some Toys ‘R’ Us Stores
by lph on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @12:42PM
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They will price match with other stores. I was in there last weekend to spend a gift card and knocked about 20% off the prices by price matching Amazon.
When our daughter was born we price compared them for a lot of big ticket items, but ultimately just bought online or at Target / Walmart.
A few times a year they have a good deal on something (again with coupons) so we purchase, but walking into the store blind shopping is basically just paying a 15% corporate convenience fee.
If they were price competitive with others, I would have stopped in there a lot more, but oh well.