Tesco's price matching is usually really cheap and nasty compared to the Aldi product which is comparable to the mainstream full price stuff you get in Tesco.
I've seen walk-throughs of their store in a store concept. It's not great, at all. Unless they commit to actual retail space (not inside of a dying department store), it's not really a "comeback"... it's more like two leeches sucking on the same limb.
BOOO! Kiddie City was the best toy store in America back in the 70's and 80's!! Their selection and volume of toys FAR surpassed that of all other competitors! Most importantly, their prices were way, way cheaper than Toys r us. Lionel Kiddie City FTW
Toys “R” Us is still not back. It’s still abandoned but when we was not born and my mom was a kid she to go inside Toys “R” Us because it was not a abandoned back in her days
Old German here 😉 Some facts regarding the history of Aldi. The name connected the two first letters of their name Al brecht and Di scount. Up until the late 1960‘s / early 1970‘s their stores were small, without any decoration, literally like a warehouse. No shelves, no advertisement, bare white walls. They sold only the bare minimum of products every family needed: Salt, sugar, flour, canned goods (no brands). In those days the items were sold literally off the pallets that came from the producers, made for Aldi excusively because the producers of branded products would not do business with Aldi (in those days). Every product you bought at Aldi was cheaper than anywhere else. The packages all had a three digit number prominently printed on. The cashiers had to learn the number of each Item, they were faster entering them by hand than the early scanners! (Aldi was the last company to introduce scanners). Every employee had to do several jobs, moving pallets, cleaning the floor, sitting at the cash register. For this they were payed relatively well. Aldi always sold good quality for a low price. National / international brands tried to boycott Aldi, Aldi worked with smaller, independent producers, demanding a quality comparable or better than the big brands at a lower price. As their business expanded in the 1980‘s several big brands could not avoid doing business with Aldi, albeit to Aldi‘s conditions. Nowadays nearly every of Aldi‘s own brands is as good or even better than the known national brand competitor, not even few are made by them, just in a different package. Nowadays Supermarkets try to copy Aldi‘s system, at least with a limited range of products with their own brands. Most can not compete in price / quality relation to Aldi. (BTW one of the reasons why Walmart failed in Germany). Their only real competitor (in Germany) is Lidl. In one area Lidl is better, in the other Aldi. It is a very tough competition.
Noone ever brings up how the big toy companies screwed TRU with their relentless repaints and variations so that collectors had to buy multiples of the same action figures just so they could complete their collections. This resulted in toys that would never sell, sitting on pegs until TRU were forced to put them on clearance.
Thanks for an informative well made video. If you're still checking- Did RDJ's statement about how bad a Burger King burger was; that drove him to sobriety- have an impact?
i don't watch the video, i just skip to the end, so I can be happy that my favorite toy store is coming back, not staying in the shelf somewhere,........marius(punk rules).
I really don’t like online retailing especially Amazon but if if I came up with the idea first I still would’ve done it because it is a money maker. I believe every company should join in into online retailing.
Idk why Toys “R” Us didn’t just partner up with h.h. gregg 🤷♂️ it would’ve been a great investment deal and they would’ve sold video games galore with the electronic company and the toy company collaborating it would’ve been a very smart decision
