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attractions. this is a mirror. you can see yourself. the kids can play with the toys and you can buy them. of course, there s a lot of competition out there. jeffrey the giraffe was on hiatus for a while. you ve got amazon and walmart and target all selling toys. is toys r us able to get that market share back? we spoke to the ceo and he told me this is all about the experience and using technology to change how they are doing business. also interesting to note it is they are with target. if you go to toys r us.com, it will actually direct you to target. there s only 1500 products in this store. 15,000 products are available online and they re working to maximize their consumer reach. this is going to be a great
won t wreck this thing. bill: the guy never brings bad news, does he? i try not to. sandra: what do we know about toys r us? jeffrey the giraffe. apparently they filed for bankruptcy to get secured lenders. they would auction everything off and then they said let s put the brakes on. why don t we try to revive this thing? why do we have to break it up and have jeffrey the giraffe as a free agent? why not rebuild the things, work on merchandising. they ll try to rebrand it and take advantage of it. i think it s a smart move on their part. i ve seen wal-mart and target do well. my granddaughter 5 years old knows toys r us for the first years of her life. sandra: anybody else who walks in the store says i can never bring my kid back here again because they want everything on the shelf.
sandra: you know that one? bill: on my iphone on itunes. sandra: that s the catchy jingle we ve come to know over the years. it looks like those toys r us kids. the company closes the doors for the last of its u.s. locations. many of them have shot. they announced it planned on closing 180 stores after filing chapter 11 bankruptcy. poor sales and massive debt led to the decision to shut down all locations two months later. 30,000 people are out of a job including the mascot jeffrey the giraffe. you remember the toys r us in new york city around the corner in time square had the ferris wheel inside. it will be missed. bill: i can listen to that
and this one is kind of fun as well. a whole lot of fun. sergeant james reynolds had been sending pictures of jeffrey the giraffe from afghanistan back to his daughters in connecticut. and jeffrey himself arrived at the school of 10-year-old kaitlin reynolds just in time. just in time, that is, for the big reunion between kaitlin and her dad. got to love that moment when she sees him walking in the room. the big hug. dad called it all perfect. he also surprised kaitlin s big sister in her high school class as well. those kind of moments are priceless, bring a tear to my eye. and actually we ll see more of these in the next couple of months because they re bringing home the troops from afghanistan about 18 months early as well. we ll get into that later in the show as well. but for now, we ll be back with more right after this. surprise, surprise, surprise surprise, surprise, surprise well, surprise, surprise open your eyes