Tracking toy tariffs

I was a little concerned with my package from Gundamit because they used a service called Yanwen Express. Not sure if that's their regular shipper since it was my first order from GD. I was expecting Yanwen to hand off to USPS, instead they passed the package to a company called UniUni for the "last mile". Despite the unfamiliar names, the package moved smoothly. About eight days from acceptance to delivery.

I saw these Walmart price comparisons on a non-toy message board.

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I've seen that too. The bad thing is the people who need to see that will insist it is fake (the people who will believe anything Trump or Fox News or Ben Shapiro says but yet become incredibly skeptical when presented with actual facts).

Also, 100 pages. My little thread is growing up so quickly :cry:
 
mrboshek said:
I was a little concerned with my package from Gundamit because they used a service called Yanwen Express. Not sure if that's their regular shipper since it was my first order from GD. I was expecting Yanwen to hand off to USPS, instead they passed the package to a company called UniUni for the "last mile". Despite the unfamiliar names, the package moved smoothly. About eight days from acceptance to delivery.

I saw these Walmart price comparisons on a non-toy message board.

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Toy smugglers lol
 
So what I'm hearing is I gotta buy an old crab vessel in Alaska, make my way southeast, past Russian and Japanese waters, and get to a port in China. Then load up with as much figures as it can hold and sneak my way back out to international waters, back to Alaska, and load up my contraband on some semi's headed to the lower 48? Sounds easy.
 
cmoney said:
Couple of the plaintiffs in one of the cases have asked the Supreme Court to take it up:

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yeah they are going to call him out on his lie that everything can be made in the U.S.

also this is happening...
toynewsi.com

Hasbro Cutting 3% of It's Workforce Due To Higher Tariff Costs

It is being reported by the Wall Street Journal that Hasbro is cutting 3% of it's global workforce due to increased Tariff costs. That translates to around 15
toynewsi.com
 
Already saw some layoffs from Hasbro on the games/WOTC side. Hadn't heard they were tariffs related but it makes sense timing-wise.
 
Well let's be honest here. The toy industry, outside of preschool/games, isn't exactly a growing market. I feel like it is sort of in that space where you find print media. It still survives but the heyday is probably behind them.

Also of recent note. TRU Australia is done, again. Apparently it is going into "administration" which is more or less closing down.

On top of that TRU Canada has started another round of store closures this past week. That brings the total number of stores closed/closing in the past 8 months to about 25 (out of approximately 80). The feeling is that TRU in Canada isn't long for this world and I wouldn't be surprised to see it completely close down in the next 12 months.
 
Based on the comments I see on these boards (and Fwoosh previously) from the Canadian members it doesn't sound like TRU will be missed. It sucks what's happened to that store over the last ten years. And it sucks for all of the people they currently employ.
 
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