ToysRUs UK & US bankruptcy & closure

[Trent]

Okay, this post is getting us off-topic, but they didn't "scrap" penalty rates... we still have penalty rates for weekends and after-hours on weekdays.

The Sunday rate was brought into line with Saturday, because we aren't a majority Christian country anymore (less than 11% attend church on a regular or irregular basis now)... and the higher rate was for businesses to pay employees more for missing their obligation to attend church services (when these higher Sunday rates were first brought in). Just like how businesses and retailers were not allowed to operate on Sundays... those archaic laws were drawn up by rather non-secular governments last century, and as trading hours on Sundays have been slowly relaxed to be close or equal to Saturday in various cities around the country, it was only a matter of time that the pay rates would reflect that change as well.

So there is no longer a logical reason why one day of the weekend is more important than the other, to have it paid more than the other.
After all, is it fair to have people doing a particular job on Saturday earn less than people doing the exact same job on Sunday.

Base rates need to be higher, not the penalty rates, or else you get a large chunk of society desperately dependant on the higher paid, odd-hour work just to be able to afford to raise a family that they now have to miss seeing most of the time working those shifts.

Higher Base rates and lower costs of living... should be the focus of politicians, not fighting over penalty rates (which are only a percentage of the base rate anyway, so if it doesn't go up, the penalty rate doesn't go up either).

Having family members directly impacted by this change, I could debate with you at length about how your Christian arguement is moot. But as you said, wrong topic.

[DELTAprime]

TRU ain't dead yet... The hearing is postponed. Plus an update on TRU Canada.
https://www.seibertron.com/transform...-canada/40873/

[DELTAprime]

And that's it folks, TRU in both the US and UK are closing down completely.

https://www.seibertron.com/transform...-stores/40888/

https://www.seibertron.com/transform...-the-uk/40886/

[Thurmus]

And most likely Australia as well.

http://www.news.com.au/finance/busin...57a5427cc81a20

[Gouki]

It's terrible those people will lose jobs, but, frankly, from a consumer perspective? Good riddance to bad over prices rubbish.

[griffin]

It is sad... I've bought a lot of toys from TRU in America, and would feel worse if botcon was still happening. TRU was always a priority, with Walmart And Target when I was in America, and it would be a factor in deciding hotels when not at the convention. There is even one near the LA Airport that I had checked out several times before or after a flight, and once between two connecting flights (taxi there and back, with the driver waiting for me).
I think we'll miss the exclusives most though. There might not have been a lot, or cheap, but it was the store with the most despite Walmart and Amazon being bigger.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I wonder if future kids will ever experience that feeling of walking into a huge store filled with toys.

[griffin]

I wonder if future kids will ever experience that feeling of walking into a huge store filled with toys.

That is true... with the loss of Kaybee Toys 10-ish years ago, and now ToysRUs, American kids don't have a chain of stores that are exclusively toys anymore.
As bad as we might say ToysRUs and Toyworld are with their prices or product range, we still love to go to those stores because it is mostly just toys. A feeling you don't get with Target, BigW, Kmart or Walmart, no matter how big the store is.

[DELTAprime]

One thing we need to be mindful of is in the liquidation of any company you have done business with, so TRU US and potentially AU for me in this case, there is the possibility of your customer data ending up in someone else's hands at which point they can use it however they want.

Fortunately TRU doesn't have any of our personal devices in its possession. In the recent bankruptcy auction of NCIX you can see people's personal computers that are being auctioned off. In a video that's behind a paywall we find out that the Nvidia Shield that Linus buys in the second video has the owners personal accounts still logged in and he could have charged the users credit card for content on the device or even stolen the owners accounts entirely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29LL3blOxds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDZfh5IjGv8