Kanyon71

We MORE than make up for it with all the shipping, I use Amazon a for a lot of things. I price shop and if it's cheaper I end up getting it there. No doubt about that. Much more of it and we will rethink ours also.

Quite a jump in price there. Will still keep mine but I'm sure there is going to be a large portion of people who will be very upset about this.

I was just thinking that. When I last lived in FL I remember people running around in full blown artic gear coats when it was in the 50's. I was laughing my butt off. I lived there 18 years but i still traveled for work all the time so I was in winter places with snow and cold a lot.

TRU Execs didn't approve it. The person trying to buy them isn't done and soon it won't matter what the TRU people think once the bankruptcy court fully get's ahold of it. The offer was close to $1B if I remember closely.

I didn't realize that. I thought it might be like TRU where they are buying assests including 200+ stores to keep them open.

It looks like someone is buying their assets. So hopefully much like Toys R Us(Someone is buying 200 stores and the name and such) it means some of them will be saved.

Soon it will be in my rear view mirror again lol. This has been a HORRIBLE winter. Mother Nature must be off her meds.

Ya I went out to do some shopping yesterday and it was snowing.

April already?

Ya I read they are doing a ton of hiring right now.

If you're going during the week and during daytime you are more likely to avoid lines.

I heard the discounts right now are rather lame, prices higher than normal type of thing.

Very sad day. We will have no dedicated toy stores left. Amazon is a great thing but it's killing traditional shopping and that's not always a good thing. We actually spent a good amount at TRU this past BF. Lot's of good deals for the kids in our families.

Not a college basketball/sports fan so I won't be in this one.

To me the smart play would be if another Toy store wants to move into the US is buy all the TRU portions they want including real estate. Would have an established chain all over for a fraction of what it would cost to build that footprint.

In a story I read about this situation it sounds like the company that took them over in a hostile move some time back strapped them with a $400M a year interest payment that had to be made. That's a HUGE amount of money to have to pay out before you try and do any other type of business. This seems sort of shady to me but I also don't know the specifics of what went on.

Read an article last night that as of next week it's rumored that TRU is going into full liquidation. Sad sad. I guess they got really hosed over on their last takeover they got stuck with $400M a year in just interest payments. Makes it hard to dig your way out when you have to pay $400M just towards interest.

Ya I heard we are expecting 3"-6" of snow tonight. It was almost 60 yesterday. YAY....

I can't believe it's March in about 14 hours.

Just bought some of the Disney LED Steins from the front page for Christmas gifts.

Wow poor little one. So sorry to hear he keeps wracking up things.

Not good, the latest one sounds like an allergy reaction to something.

Flu has been BAD this year. Couple people we know have had it twice.

Not horrible, I have the plus and have had it 2-3 years now. The past two years we have received enough cash back from it to just about pay for the full cost of the membership not taking away what the non-plus would be. That with the extras we have gotten out of it has made me keep it.

Nothing wrong with that. Savings are savings