The World’s Biggest Toy Store seems to be downsizing, while it seems to be getting hit from both ends. It appears that Wal-Mart is hitting their sales on the low end with inexpensive Chinese goods. Some say that the toys that they sell at Wal-Mart do not last as long because they are made inexpensively.
Personally, I have also noticed this fact all in some other toys that Wal-Mart but not all toys and not all brands. If you look at Zaney Brainy they seem to sell more of the higher in toys such as the robotic Legos, educational toys and toys, which make the children think. Either way it has been a tough road for Toys R Us. Who will win the toy wars in the retail sector in the next decade?
Which companies will still be around selling toys in ten-years? Zaney Brainy seems to have a specialty niche although they too are getting some competition these days as well as several other copy cat type companies have popped up along with Co-Op Online Home Schooling toy sales and educational online catalogs for parents to choose from. Wal-Mart’s toy isles are getting bigger and bigger each year and I must say they have some very cool toys that were not around when we were kids don’t they? Consider all this in 2006.
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