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Old 07-28-2021, 03:10 PM   #2181
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Re: ToysRUs.ca Transformers Sightings and discussion

I have no doubt TRU is struggling in Canada. Ive said this numerous times before but the business side of TRU is run very archaically.

They have slow distribution which makes them the last to get anything that is not an exclusive. Also for the entire month of January they supply NO product to their stores so they can do inventory (they dont know what cycle counting is). They also get in bed with weird charities like Autism Speaks which is in a lot of crap in the Autistic community because they push that there is a cure to Autism.

Also TRU employees can buy an entire skid of product before it even hits the floors. You can be an inside scalper at TRU stores across Canada.

Overall TRU does not have much longer left to live if they do not overhaul their current internal processes.
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Old 07-28-2021, 03:46 PM   #2182
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what a disaster, 1st they cancelled my Kingdom Rod, next it was 2 x WFC Ramjets and today my MPM12, i'm done with them my money is no good for them
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Old 07-29-2021, 08:42 AM   #2183
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I have no doubt TRU is struggling in Canada. Ive said this numerous times before but the business side of TRU is run very archaically.

They have slow distribution which makes them the last to get anything that is not an exclusive. Also for the entire month of January they supply NO product to their stores so they can do inventory (they dont know what cycle counting is). They also get in bed with weird charities like Autism Speaks which is in a lot of crap in the Autistic community because they push that there is a cure to Autism.

Also TRU employees can buy an entire skid of product before it even hits the floors. You can be an inside scalper at TRU stores across Canada.

Overall TRU does not have much longer left to live if they do not overhaul their current internal processes.
This is absolutely wild. Are there any articles going into more detail on this, like who decided that this should be their business model?
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Old 07-29-2021, 12:04 PM   #2184
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For canceling the MPM-12 Prime preorder, they gave me a 10% off coupon. Whoopty-friggen-doo...
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Old 07-29-2021, 04:51 PM   #2185
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Got my Ark this morning. Came backed in a box twice the size of the Ark box with those inflatable filler/bumper things to pad it out.


It's not a perfect figure but I like a lot of things about it and some of the engineering elements are really interesting (like a set of panels that accordion out from the wrist area as you deploy the hands in order to fill in the hollow that's now vacated during transformation.


I'm totally going to lose that teeny tiny Optimus figure though, so it's probably never coming out of its wrapper.


The only other gripes I have are minor. Mainframe could've used a gun or something and like someone else noted, it's kind of weird that the back of the Vok disc is printed with a repeat of the Sounds of Earth record side (there are two discs packed in. One is the Voyager disc with the Sounds of Earth record on one side and the appropriate pictograms on the other. The other is the Vok disc with the Vok symbols on one side and the Sounds of Earth repeat on the other.)



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This is absolutely wild. Are there any articles going into more detail on this, like who decided that this should be their business model?

I haven't read anything, but I feel like nobody "decided" this is their business model. It's more like "we haven't changed how we've done things in 20+ years and the world of web-based sales is new and frightening to us"


Like I wouldn't be surprised if you went to TRU corporate HQ and found their senior executives typing up documents on old IBM Compatible with the 5 1/4" floppy drives (only half joking about that)
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Old 07-29-2021, 04:54 PM   #2186
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I haven't read anything, but I feel like nobody "decided" this is their business model. It's more like "we haven't changed how we've done things in 20+ years and the world of web-based sales is new and frightening to us"


Like I wouldn't be surprised if you went to TRU corporate HQ and found their senior executives typing up documents on old IBM Compatible with the 5 1/4" floppy drives.
This. Why i said archaic. They just didnt update their systems and internal processes to go with the times and technology. They kept thinking doing it the old way was the best way unfortunately. Part of it was greed though because these things cost money to implement.
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Old 07-29-2021, 06:03 PM   #2187
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This. Why i said archaic. They just didnt update their systems and internal processes to go with the times and technology. They kept thinking doing it the old way was the best way unfortunately. Part of it was greed though because these things cost money to implement.
Don't underestimate possible hubris as well. I could imagine senior management thinking they survived, and thrived, where the US team went belly up, so why would we do anything different?
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Old 07-29-2021, 06:12 PM   #2188
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Toys R Us closing in the US was a deliberate attempt by the shareholders to tank the company and walk away with a big payout. Had nothing to do with the company itself and how the stores were run.
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Old 07-29-2021, 06:27 PM   #2189
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Wow I only just realized they cancelled my G2 ramjet after reading this thread, that ontop of my cancelled Rodimus sucks. Ok , what's best place to order either right now?
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Old 07-29-2021, 06:32 PM   #2190
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Wow I only just realized they cancelled my G2 ramjet after reading this thread, that ontop of my cancelled Rodimus sucks. Ok , what's best place to order either right now?
Toy Snowman has them both in stock, and you'll get over the free shipping minimum.
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