Toys 'R' Us: Boycott.

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If they are reading this, I just spent 250 dollars between Halo Reach and a new car seat. I was going to go to their stores, but went to Walmart instead. It's money they will never see, and over time all new purchases will not be made in a Toys R Us or Babies R us.
 
Mr Storch's address as shown above is not accessible. It looks as though it's valid, but it's blocked.

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Got a response:

Thank you for contacting the “R” Us Team.

At Toys “R” Us, Inc., the safety and security of our customers and our employees is, and always has been, our highest priority. As a retailer that welcomes millions of kids and families into our stores across the country each year, we take our responsibility to create only the safest shopping environment very seriously. While we respect citizens’ rights to carry firearms in public areas according to certain state laws, our company policy prohibits customers from doing so in any of our stores out of an abundance of caution for the safety and protection of the children and families shopping with us.

Sincerely,

“R” Us Guest Relations
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So based on their logic, if a shooting occurs OUTSIDE TRU where there are people with concealed carry permits, the safest place is INSIDE TRU...

I have as much handgun training, and arguably MORE than most common LEOs. Most states allow me to carry. Yet that's not good enough for TRU... funny. Well then my $ isn't good enough either. I'll never shop there or in any of their businesses intentionally.
 
My TRU letter

Just wanted to drop you a note to let you know that your decision not to allow guns in your stores hit a nerve with me. I spent many summers of my youth saving up allowance money and recycling money so I could go to your store and buy cap guns. I now have three children of my own under the age of 6 and keeping them safe is the most important thing in the world to me. I will not frequent any store that would knowingly try to impair my ability to protect my family.

Yours,

Tobias Jones
 
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My TRU letter

Just wanted to drop you a note to let you know that your decision not to allow guns in your stores hit a nerve with me. I spent many summers of my youth saving up allowance money and recycling money so I could go to your store and buy cap guns. I now have three children of my own under the age of 6 and keeping them safe is the most important thing in the world to me. I will not frequent any store that would knowingly try to impair my ability to protect my family.

Yours,

Tobias Jones
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^^^Good stuff toby. My feelings exactly, although my children are my Grand children..Bill.
 
My email:

"Hi! I have a 3 year old. Bought a lot of stuff from TRU/BRU- toys, gear, supplies..... No more though, at least, not until your ridiculous new No Firearms Allowed policy is retracted. If there was going to be an incident, do you *really* think that a No Guns Allowed sign is going to have an impact?

Do you believe in Santa Claus, too?

Very sincerely yours,

porterdog
Ferndale, MI

Boycott info:

http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=543355"
 
Here's another brief letter ya'll can send.


Mr. Storch,

The new policy against legal handgun carry permit holders is misguided and based on prejudice and should be changed to a policy that does not discriminate against the most vetted members of the public.

Criminals will no more obey a "No Guns" sign than they would a "No Shoplifting" sign. Only law abiding people will try to pay any attention to such a posting and they are not a concern in the first place. Worse yet, by putting such signs up you force handgun carry permit holders, who've undergone background checks and paid considerable sums of money for training and the permit fees to legally carry a handgun, to leave their firearms in their vehicles in your unsecured parking lots.

What you should expect in response to such discrimination is that many if not most of them will take their business to your competitors who will not treat them like the criminals you're actually concerned about.

You're not prohibiting criminals from bringing guns on your premises, you're rejecting law abiding gun owners with this prejudicial policy.

Regards,
 
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Message that I sent.

Hello,

As a law-abiding citizen, I find it unreasonable that your "No Firearms" policy will prohibit me from carrying my LEGALLY aqcuired and LEGALLY possessed fiearm into your stores. I am a father of a 2 year-old, and my main focus on carrying a weapon is to protect the lives of my loved ones. In the past 2.5 years, I have spent thousands of dollars in Toys R Us and Babies R Us. I do not plan on spending any more of my hard earned money with your company any longer.

You have said to many other people that have sent their concerns that the policy is to create a safe environment for families. As a company, do you honestly believe that a gun-toting criminal will follow the posted signs and leave the store? The only safe environment that my family has is the one that I create, not the one that you prohibit.

Thank you for your time,

Kristian Lenard
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Huh, looks like I need to get in on this one. We have another daughter due in January, and they won't be getting a single one of my hard-earned dimes.
 
Dear Sir,

I have just been informed of Toy's R Us' policy of banning the carry of concealed firearms by law-abiding citizens. My second child is due in January, but rest assured your company will not see a single one of my hard-earned dollars until this policy is redacted. Additionally, I will be actively spreading the word amongst my friends and family with young children.

The selection of products and excellent customer service attracted me to your stores in the past. But I cannot continue to patronize an establishment that is willing to put my family in harm's way.

Thank you,

-my legal name

EDIT: got a bounceback

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

[email protected]

Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 Mailbox unavailable or access denied - <[email protected]> (state 14).
 
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SO FAR my letter has not come back yet, it did take longer to send then normal

told him looks like you have struck a nerve in the gun world as i found this on numerous sites, seems you have a snow ball rolling and i wouldn't be looking for that big bonus check at the end of the year either.


will see
 
Inevitable

TRU has done what I figured they would do. They apparently have closed the E-Mail service. I sent a message to the general Council at TRU with no reply
 
so snail mail is still an option


just got it back.


Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<[email protected]>:
206.70.251.139 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 Mailbox unavailable or access denied - <[email protected]>
Giving up on 206.70.251.139.



if they pulled the email account there must be a ton of letters hitting the inbox, and not just the few from here.
 
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As pointed out before, we're guessing about the CEO's email address. Being the CEO he may be StorchG1@ or StorchGerald@ or some other combination based on how many Storchs there are at TRU.

It would be very good if we could get the specific email address for this guy so we wouldn't have to guess.
 
"Next tier managers"

Forget about the next tier managers. The CEO sets company policy they NTM's only follow in rout step. Continue the snail mail they will take the next step of filtering their mail to the CEO. The CEO will have an underling read and discard letters on this subject. The impact will be the fact they will know of the volume of mail received on this issue. I am alone in the position that the efforts should be expanded beyond TRU to the pro-gun public at large.
 
So what is the plan now since the CEO's email isn't working? Snail mail? General Council? I'm all for a concerted effort, just say where we're going.
 
General Council

The General Council is in that postion to formulate and defend the CEO's position to conform to the law. He has no policy making authority. In the TRU issue the only one that can change policy is the CEO or Board of Directors or what ever ruling party their corporate structure operates under. The sponsors of the letter writing campaign are correct when they target TRU's financial structure. The question is can we muster enough support to have enough effect so as to change their policy. That is yet to be seen. TRU's recent action has seriously hampered that effort. I never complain without offering a solution. My solution to this issue in addition to those stated is to form a committee to direct this effort. I feel we must form a unified front that expands the effort beyond TRU to those entities that are or may consider similar policies. In the effort we may have to be willing to negotiate. We may be required to abandon the hard line favored by many. I believe you won't change policy without sitting down with management and negotiating. We must identify succintly our position and our solution to managements policy. It is unlikely that any Federal or State law will be passed requiring private entities to allow Open carry or Concealed carry on their premises.

Would the following be an acceptable position:
1. Only licensed (permitted) individuals allowed to carry on premises.
2. Those individuals are required to identify themselves as carrying to management upon entering the premises.
3. No open carrying allowed.
4. All weapons must be concealed.

This is right off the top of my head and no doubt will meet wiith resistance. There is a common ground out there
 
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Your position is 100% unacceptable snubbies.

Any store with policies like those you put forward in your post would be the subject of a boycott the same as any store with their current policy.

As an aside, the policy of just concealing despite their signs is one many adopt already. What would we have gained?
 
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