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Nov. 1, 2010 at 3:22 p.m.
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Filed under: Consumer electronics, Consumer news, Retail

Wal-Mart tweaks holiday toy strategy

By McClatchy Tribune Newspapers

Wal-Mart shoppers wait in line on Dec. 21, 2009, at one of the retailer's stores in Ocoee, Fla., for Zhu Zhu toys. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/MCT)

After last Christmas, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. turned to its customers to find out how it could improve toy shopping this holiday season.

Moms told the nation’s largest retailer not to push Christmas toys until after Halloween passed and to give them more, not just $10 specials.

That was a price Wal-Mart promoted early and big in 2008 and 2009 in toys, books and DVDs, starting price wars in early October the last two years. Get the full story »

Sep. 21, 2010 at 1:03 p.m.
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Filed under: Retail

Toys R Us releases its list to Santa

By McClatchy Tribune Newspapers

Memo to Santa, from Jerry Storch and his team of executive elves at Toys R’ Us headquarters in Wayne, N.J.: Here are the toys we’re betting you will see on lots of kids’ lists this year.

Toys R’ Us on Tuesday released its annual list of hot holiday toys. The retailer selected three dozen toys it expects will be popular this year, and named 15 of those as the hottest of the bunch. Get the full story »