As a dad of three boys, I’ve put together dozens of toys, typically while cursing the nonsensical directions and pieces that don’t fit right under my breath. OK, occasionally there’s cursing out loud too. I know how frustrating it can be. But a NY Times story on how toys come with more pieces nowadays—because they’re [...]
The battle of the titan discounters is becoming one for the ages: Price wars, which began with books and DVDs, have expanded to include everything from cell phones to game consoles to toys.
Flat-panel TVs, laptops, camcorders, GPS devices, and video-game consoles are all being sold at record-low prices. As we head into the heart of the holiday shopping season, Wal-Mart is planning on big price reductions on toys too.
Toy and DVD purchases are being discounted by $10 to $25 today only (October 21) at the Discovery Store website. Use the coupon code SAVE10 to save $10 off a $60 purchase, SAVE15 to save $15 off of a $75 purchase, or SAVE25 to save $25 off of a $100 purchase, via Bargainist.
The shopping mall, that wonderfully iconic, most American of places, is changing, and the economic downturn bears a lot of the responsibility. Store names that were once ubiquitous have disappeared. Vacancy rates are seriously high. And just about everybody is discounting merchandise and looking for new ways to connect to consumers.
Apparently it’s not enough to inundate babies with “educational” toys soon after they’re brought out into the world. Now, fetuses are being forced to listen to foreign language recordings and classical music in the womb, all under the pretense of making the child smarter.
OK, so we’ve got a post that names 11 useless baby products. What are the things that parents actually do find useful when they have a baby?
Today, Toys R Us is announcing that it is opening 80 new temporary toy stores and 260 mini-toy shops within Babies R U locations to gear up for holiday-season shopping. Retailers like Sears, Wal-Mart, and Target are also ramping up efforts to get toys moving off of their shelves in what’s expected to be a [...]
Marketers may even be better than moms when it comes to using guilt—especially when they’re using guilt on soon-to-be moms. The message, sent implicitly or sometimes quite overtly, is that how and what parents purchase for the children are direct reflections on them as parents.
