Toys'R'Us closing all UK stores by end of April

Squinty wrote:

RichardUK wrote:I guess I have lost all the points on my toys r us card now then, I would go and see if there is any Lego reduced but the weather is stopping me and I’d feel bad for the staff

Just don't look any of them in the eye as you raid their discounted Lego. Job done.

I doubt it'll go under the business is profitable but it has a load of debt. Somebody will buy it up.

RichardUK wrote:I guess I have lost all the points on my toys r us card now then, I would go and see if there is any Lego reduced but the weather is stopping me and I’d feel bad for the staff

No discounted Lego in my local store yet but I’m gonna keep an eye out over the coming weeks.

Wait wait. Chimichanga places are closing down too???

I hope Prezzo doesn’t go, I dine there often

Buffalo wrote:I hope Prezzo doesn’t go, I dine there often

It's the preferred venue for the wife and I to spend our Tesco vouchers at (free meal/date night once a month, woohoo!), but there's always ASK, Pizza Express and Zizzi to fall back on should we need to.

Preezy wrote:

Buffalo wrote:I hope Prezzo doesn’t go, I dine there often

It's the preferred venue for the wife and I to spend our Tesco vouchers at (free meal/date night once a month, woohoo!), but there's always ASK, Pizza Express and Zizzi to fall back on should we need to.

What Tesco vouchers do you speak of?

Buffalo wrote:

Preezy wrote:

Buffalo wrote:I hope Prezzo doesn’t go, I dine there often

It's the preferred venue for the wife and I to spend our Tesco vouchers at (free meal/date night once a month, woohoo!), but there's always ASK, Pizza Express and Zizzi to fall back on should we need to.

What Tesco vouchers do you speak of?

Tesco clubcard points can be traded in at 3 times their value for restaurant vouchers, so every month we spend our accrued points on a meal out. Doesn’t include drinks but you can quite easily have a nice meal for a couple of quid.

TigaSefi wrote:Wait wait. Chimichanga places are closing down too???

Yes. They are owned by the same company as prezzo. All chimichanga restaurants are going and some prezzo's.

Preezy wrote:

Buffalo wrote:

Preezy wrote:

Buffalo wrote:I hope Prezzo doesn’t go, I dine there often

It's the preferred venue for the wife and I to spend our Tesco vouchers at (free meal/date night once a month, woohoo!), but there's always ASK, Pizza Express and Zizzi to fall back on should we need to.

What Tesco vouchers do you speak of?

Tesco clubcard points can be traded in at 3 times their value for restaurant vouchers, so every month we spend our accrued points on a meal out. Doesn’t include drinks but you can quite easily have a nice meal for a couple of quid.

Ma mayne!

Buffalo wrote:

Preezy wrote:

Buffalo wrote:

Preezy wrote:

Buffalo wrote:I hope Prezzo doesn’t go, I dine there often

It's the preferred venue for the wife and I to spend our Tesco vouchers at (free meal/date night once a month, woohoo!), but there's always ASK, Pizza Express and Zizzi to fall back on should we need to.

What Tesco vouchers do you speak of?

Tesco clubcard points can be traded in at 3 times their value for restaurant vouchers, so every month we spend our accrued points on a meal out. Doesn’t include drinks but you can quite easily have a nice meal for a couple of quid.

Ma mayne!

Still at x4 until June isn't it? It was extended following complaints after they reduced it to x3 without notice.

IAmTheSaladMan wrote:

RichardUK wrote:I guess I have lost all the points on my toys r us card now then, I would go and see if there is any Lego reduced but the weather is stopping me and I’d feel bad for the staff

No discounted Lego in my local store yet but I’m gonna keep an eye out over the coming weeks.

My store has 20% off everything. No consoles unfortunately but loads of overpriced games that are probably still more than Amazon with 20% off - not really that surprising that they find themselves in this position.

Maplin has nothing on sale yet......

Death's Head wrote:

IAmTheSaladMan wrote:

RichardUK wrote:I guess I have lost all the points on my toys r us card now then, I would go and see if there is any Lego reduced but the weather is stopping me and I’d feel bad for the staff

No discounted Lego in my local store yet but I’m gonna keep an eye out over the coming weeks.

My store has 20% off everything. No consoles unfortunately but loads of overpriced games that are probably still more than Amazon with 20% off - not really that surprising that they find themselves in this position.

Maplin has nothing on sale yet......

The maplin near me seems to have everything on sale. Don't know what I'd bother to buy from them though.

IAmTheSaladMan wrote:

RichardUK wrote:I guess I have lost all the points on my toys r us card now then, I would go and see if there is any Lego reduced but the weather is stopping me and I’d feel bad for the staff

No discounted Lego in my local store yet but I’m gonna keep an eye out over the coming weeks.

Apparently Lego bought all of their stock back as they didn't want it being discounted.

satriales wrote:

IAmTheSaladMan wrote:

RichardUK wrote:I guess I have lost all the points on my toys r us card now then, I would go and see if there is any Lego reduced but the weather is stopping me and I’d feel bad for the staff

No discounted Lego in my local store yet but I’m gonna keep an eye out over the coming weeks.

Apparently Lego bought all of their stock back as they didn't want it being discounted.

I suppose they don’t want Toys R Us’ downfall cheapening their brand.

IAmTheSaladMan wrote:

satriales wrote:

IAmTheSaladMan wrote:

RichardUK wrote:I guess I have lost all the points on my toys r us card now then, I would go and see if there is any Lego reduced but the weather is stopping me and I’d feel bad for the staff

No discounted Lego in my local store yet but I’m gonna keep an eye out over the coming weeks.

Apparently Lego bought all of their stock back as they didn't want it being discounted.

I suppose they don’t want Toys R Us’ downfall cheapening their brand.

Yeah I actually expected this to happen. Lego are very controlling over the prices of their products. A lot of the discounts have to be authorised by them as part of the contract when they purchase stock from them.

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:

TigaSefi wrote:Wait wait. Chimichanga places are closing down too???

Yes. They are owned by the same company as prezzo. All chimichanga restaurants are going and some prezzo's.

Well, this is sad. Prezzo's at least, never had a Chimichanga so can't comment

With no discounted Lego and no bargains on games there isn’t anything that I want from Toys R Us and like lex-man I can’t think what I would want from Maplin even if everything was in the sale

After realising that Toys R Us are still open, I took my lad there this afternoon.

We had a great time! He loved getting in all of the electric kids cars (and the Star Wars Landspeeder), loved the playhouses, loved looking at the Peppa Pig toys and best of all LOVED the massive animatronic T-Rex that they had in there. He was scared close up, but was staring and waving at it whenever we were slightly further back.

I didn’t buy anything so it was a great free hour out. Cheers Toys R Us!

Oh and Richard, they had plenty of Lego in there, it was at 10% off, but I don’t know how competitive their “full” price is to know if the Lego in there was a bargain.

Their discounted Lego is still more expensive than Amazon’s normal priced Lego. In some cases it’s still above lego’s RRP.

Called in yesterday on my way home and it was like the seventh circle of hell. Kids screaming everywhere, entitled parents with shitloads of crap complaining it was “only” 20% off, and nothing that I would have actually purchased left in stock. Disaster.

RIP.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43411051

Toys R Us will close or sell all its 885 stores in the US after failing to find a buyer, putting about 30,000 jobs under threat.

Chief executive Dave Brandon said it was a "profoundly sad day" for the retailer.

The giant toy-store chain was already in the process of closing one fifth of its shops after filing for bankruptcy protection last year.

Toys R Us will also close all its UK stores by the end of April.

The UK collapse will put more than 3,000 people out of work as a dismal period for the retail sector continues.