Wii Fit sales bring profits in Q2 for Toys R Us

Posted Sep 11th 2008 8:15PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: News

Wii Fit is helping all kinds of retailers make money. In fact, the fitness bundle from Nintendo is still hard to find. Now, we hear that the package helped drive profits up for retailer Toys R Us. During Q2 of last year, the retailer had a loss of $42 million. This year, the company turned profits of $13 million.

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Tags: balance-board, business, geoffrey, sales, salesfigures, toys-r-us, toysrus, wii-fit

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

9-11-2008 @ 9:05PM

Gun Barrier (Gamer Tag) said...

aww thats nice. t.r.u was my store for videogames when i was younger. Now i moved on to bigger and better stores, Best Buy.

9-11-2008 @ 10:19PM

Geo said...

Has anybody else noticed that they like to overcharge on many in store items? For instance, some Wii games are $10 more than retail.

9-12-2008 @ 12:05AM

David Hinkle said...

No, I've never heard of that. I bet pictorial evidence would be interesting to some website out there.

Don't know which one. I bet there's one. I'd have to think about it.

:D

9-12-2008 @ 7:14AM

Covarr said...

It's Scrooge McDuck's long lost brother, Geoffrey McDuck!

9-12-2008 @ 8:57PM

Gewurztraminer says: Shinkuu Gadouken! said...

I was going to saying "Scrooge McGeoffrey" myself, but... yeah...

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