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07-01-2020, 11:52 PM | #221 |
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I used to work at Toy R Us, and it was not fun. Every floor employee needed a minimum number of Geoffrey birthday club sign-ups every day, which was obviously a lot easier for cashiers than whoever was facing the preschool aisle. After signing up every friend/relative's kid, we all just made up fictional kids on the sheets. The customer service people would even make it a (very quiet) part of their advice to new employees. I thought it'd be cool if I'd be the one to do something about it!
I did the math one day and brought it to our manager. I explained that with the county's population, the average number of floor employees, the numbers expected of us, and how long the policy had been in place: if all of us hit quota every day then every single child within 80 miles of the store would have already been signed up a decade earlier, in the mid '90s! So I said that maybe the requirements should be relaxed a bit since we were being asked to do the impossible by getting all those sign-ups. I got moved to the backroom to assemble bicycles and Power Wheels. If it was a punishment, then it was an (I'd hope intentionally) ironic one, as assemblers one of the only non-managerial employees not required to get birthday club sign-ups Hahaha. Happy Slappy is my go-to fake person for BS contest entries. I remember getting a $5 coupon for something for signing up to learn more about a time share. Happy Slappy to the rescue.
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07-02-2020, 04:19 AM | #222 |
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I miss Toys R Us. And Childrens Palace. And Kiddie City. And Kay Bee Toys. And Family Toy Warehouse. How the hell did we go from having multiple stores full of nothing but toys to just a couple aisles in Wal Mart and Target? I remember when I was kid they had toys stacked so damn high I would climb onto the base shelves to reach the figures on the pegs!
I'm not surprised that a lot of brick & mortar stores that primarily sold toys have gone out of business in the past 10-20 years. Kids these days don't play/collect toys to the extent that those of us who grew up in the '80's/'90's did. These days, there are a hell of a lot more distractions - i.e. the Internet, streaming TV shows/movies, I-phones, I-pads, etc. Not surprisingly, a lot of the new action figure-related toys coming out these days are catering to adult collectors. I.e., it seems obvious that the new Star Wars, G.I. Joe ARAH, and Transformers toys are probably not marketed for little kids. |
07-04-2021, 06:32 PM | #223 |
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