KB is closing is stores

[davidb]

I just got back from our local one. Looked like they had some nice discounts - but 2 get 1 free on all WWE stuff, for example. I picked up some GI Joe stuff (the RAM/Trouble Bubble 2 pack and Specialist Trakker) for 30% off.

The thing to remember is that everything in the store's at least 10% off, marked or not. Looked like they had a lot of new stuff, too. I definitely know they had some of the newest WWE waves and the new GI Joe one as well.

[jwyblejr]

From what I've read on-line,it's started right now.

[thunderbolt]

So when is the liquidation sale? I need afew more Mr. Fantastics.

[BlackKnight]

I liked the KB Toy Stores up here in the Late 90's.
Everytime I walked into one,.. everything was always like Half off & I always found so many items I wanted. I think I bought a few Famous Covers for 3.99 there,.. I know Star Wars were 1.99 ,.. & Picked up some different BTAS For 2.99 a Piece.

The last time I went to a KB ,.. Last yr,.. thats Where I scored my Baris Hotwheels Batmobile. It was the 1st & Only time I ever scene the car up here.

[The Toyroom]

If only we had a downtown left, I would. Wal-Mart killed it 20 years ago.

OUR downtown was killed by urban renewal 20 years before Wal-Mart ever made it here. So they've actually been a reason to shop in the city instead of venturing out 15 miles or so to the town with the malls and big box stores.

[kryptosmaster]

AMEN, spend your money locally as much as possible and with as many independants as you can. I shop downtown every Christmas.

Spending your money locally means your money has a better chance of staying in your community, not sucked up to Bentonville.

Yeah of course you have downtown businesses there. You're in Canada.
Just wait till the 90's get to Canada and see what happens.


Rich

[jwyblejr]

Won't be long and all stores will go the way of the dinosaurs. Only thing left will be on-line stores.

[Earth 2 Chris]

AMEN, spend your money locally as much as possible and with as many independants as you can. I shop downtown every Christmas.

If only we had a downtown left, I would. Wal-Mart killed it 20 years ago.

I do try and do most of my gift shopping elsewhere. And I support the local groceries and avoid Wal-Mart's as much as possible.

Chris

[BendyZaius]

Its going to be really strange to have malls with no toy store. I urge everybody I know to boycott Walmart. I haven't been in one in 2 years and never intend to be again. They really are destroying our culture in a way. Their current ad campaign is funny "Live Better", unless of course you are one of the hundreds of thousands of people forced to work at a Walmart!

[ScottA]

This actually made the news last night. Ours in town have been gone for years and the cloest one to me is 90 miles away. But I haven't been to it in a while.

I did typically find deals on figures to use for customs.

[palitoy]

You all have to stop rushing into Walmarts Black friday blitzes and such and go back to supporting the Mom and Pop stores and smaller retails or there is only going to be one store left to choose from.

AMEN, spend your money locally as much as possible and with as many independants as you can. I shop downtown every Christmas.

Spending your money locally means your money has a better chance of staying in your community, not sucked up to Bentonville.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Kay-Bee has been barely hanging on for years, so I figured this time they wouldn't make it. The only one that was really near us now was a KB Toy Works, formerly known as Toy Liquidators. They did have some occasionally good deals on stuff, but there new stuff was still outrageously higher than Wal-Mart and TRU.

I will miss the opportunity to browse, and feel for their many employees.

Chris

[Seeker]

>Soon Walmart will own everything retail wise.

....and one day (probably NOT soon) people will be lamenting THEIR passing....

Don C.

You all have to stop rushing into Walmarts Black friday blitzes and such and go back to supporting the Mom and Pop stores and smaller retails or there is only going to be one store left to choose from. Believe me I work for the evil empire and they (The big wigs in HO) are actually working for this Theres been talk of buying out K mart/Sears going around lately.

Walmart has a main frame computer that rivals the Pentagon in speed and power. They are a major part of several countries economies right now.

[ctc]

>Soon Walmart will own everything retail wise.

....and one day (probably NOT soon) people will be lamenting THEIR passing....

Don C.

[johnnystorm]

Woolworths ....

That brings back memories ......

My local Woolworths closed it's doors around 1985.

I miss their lunch counter more then the store itself

I used to spend afternoons in Woolworth's downtown as a kid looking at toys..I can still kinda remember the smell of hoagies & hamburgers from the grill...pop a balloon for the banana split deal!

But my fondest memory of the store was having a friend whose older weird brother could not remember the store name and always referred to it as WereWolf's. ...and that still cracks me up!