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KB Toys, Inc.

Overall Rating: 
2.85
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Recent Tells/Reviews

cashier

Hi my name is tonya lewis and i was interest in working for your company right now i work for securitas securtiy at a bank my duties are monitoring activity and daily traffic throughout the bank assisting the bank personnel when needed.I also work for walgreens i assisting on the resigter and stocking the items on the shelves and pricing them and i worked at mcdonalds opening the store and closinh the store greeting customers and guests and making syre the restaurant stay in clean good condition.
As Other
By Anonymous
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We were a good company

I truly enjoyed 11 yrs of my professional life with KB Toys, the last 9yrs as an Assistant Mgr up until the very end. I saw some of the best times, and some of the worst times through both bankruptcy filings. If it wasn't for the "bankers" aka Bain Capital draining the operating cash from us; I truly believe we'd be open and stronger than Toys R Us. No other retailer paid it's associate's to play with toys to assist the customer in making their purchasing decisions. Bust yes, 1 key mistake they made was choosing to STOP selling videogames considering when I started, they accounted for about 25% of our sales in our store. Once we sold through the stock we had ...our sales dropped off by a third since customers wanted the current video titles & we didn't have them.
Now, with TRL acquiring the KB Brand, they could choose to reopen us (which I'm hoping) and if marketed correctly could & can take a good chunk of the market share back from other businesses.
As Ex-Employee
By Anonymous
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Recent Layoff Tells/Reviews

KB Layoffs

I worked at KB up until today and it was a great place to work. many of us were truly sad today because of the friends we will be leaving. It was sooo sad when we lost a lot of people last year but knowing this was the end today was really heartbreaking.

And this was not a bad company to start with -- Privatision killed us ..
As Ex-Employee
By Anonymous
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