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What You Need |
What You Don't
Want |
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The toys must be engaging for a child. |
A pile of dirty uninteresting toys does more to hurt your image than
help it. Disinteresting and confusing toys increase discontent, the
opposite of your goal. |
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They must not be
disruptive to others. |
Noisy toys, toys
that are pushed, shoved or thrown raise anxiety and disrupt the
waiting room or sales process. |
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They must not
require the child to engage their parent. |
Books that require
a parents help to read, complex toys with instructions and or missing
pieces all create interruptions when your goal was to disengage the
child from the parent. |
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They must travel. |
Fixed toy
installations are bad for line-of-sight issues for parents sitting
elsewhere in a business. Parents worry about their children being
snatched away and they worry about kids behavior when not personally
supervised. |
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They must look
decent. |
Toys and games get
used and abused very quickly in business locations. Broken toys are
left in toy bins indefinitely. |
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They must be safe. |
No one ever checks
toys for safety issues such as broken edges, pieces that can be
swallowed and product recalls on any sort of scheduled basis. |
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They must be
clean. |
Once a toy has
been touched by a single child it is no longer disinfected. With SARS,
new potent types of flu and the simple cold all on parents radar
screen, you must have a system in place to disinfect the toys. |
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They must be
exclusive. |
Toys are often
left behind at businesses. These toys end up in the toy bin. Are
they safe and engaging or are they a potential liability? |
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Have you been
negligent? |
Can you provide
the written documentation of when you inspected your toys for safety
and product recalls? Do you have written documentation on the last
time you cleaned and disinfected your toys? And, when did you last
make sure no garbage or unsafe toys had been deposited in your bin? |
