Babies "R" Us
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Oct 15, 2026
Dana LoweyGUEST
I had, uh, manufacturers in China.
Dana LoweyGUEST
I had, I had Babies R Us distributing my Stroller Stand, Sam.
Dana LoweyGUEST
I mean, crazy stuff.
Dana LoweyGUEST
And in the process of creating that, um, and building that, I needed to market it.
Sam SchneiderHOST
... and to the point where it was, they were...
Sam SchneiderHOST
it wasn't just an idea that just, like, you know, flash in a pan, this sounds like a great l- idea, and you're on it doing something for a few months.
Sam SchneiderHOST
Like, you actually had it, you know, manufactured and being distributed and, and sold at Babies R Us.
Dana LoweyGUEST
Yeah.
Nathan ZeguraHOST
...
Nathan ZeguraHOST
they had Toys R Us and Babies R Us, and then they put a little bit of each.
Bo BishopHOST
Yeah.
Gabe KaluraHOST
Kohl- Was it Kohl's, Doc? JCPenney?
Bo BishopHOST
Was that what it was?
Gabe KaluraHOST
For Babies R Us.
Bo BishopHOST
Yeah.
Gabe KaluraHOST
Yeah.
Carol SanfordGUEST
But in a regenerative company, which I write about, everyone gets to make a promise beyond ableist.
Carol SanfordGUEST
And so we had one woman who said in 7th Generation, I want our distributor, Babies R Us, to be able to explain to every mom or pop who wants to buy baby products what the effect will be on the health of that baby.
Carol SanfordGUEST
And she set out.
Carol SanfordGUEST
She didn't know how to do that.
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Carol SanfordGUEST
My first book was called The Responsible Business.
Carol SanfordGUEST
It was about how to have five stakeholders all working as a system.
Carol SanfordGUEST
The first one was consumer, customer, which was sometimes a distributor.
Carol SanfordGUEST
The second one was co-creators.
Bob PittmanHOST
food.
Bob PittmanHOST
You get going, you get distribution, you get in whole food, you get in Babies R Us, and then you realize it's not going to get you there.
Bob PittmanHOST
How did you come to that conclusion? How did you realize it? And how did you admit to yourself that you weren't hitting the goal?
Shazi VisramGUEST
Two and a half years in against this business plan, we're making frozen baby food in this little ice cube trays.
Andy RiesmeyerHOST
I had not much else.
Andy RiesmeyerHOST
Places like Babies R Us and Buy Buy BABY have shut down recently.
Andy RiesmeyerHOST
The fancy stuff is still doing very well.
Andy RiesmeyerHOST
There's a room for, I guess, high-end brick-and-mortar baby stores.
Kai RyssdalHOST
Uh, we are, of course, a digital online economy now.
Kai RyssdalHOST
Back when my kids, uh, were little, there was-- literally, there was Babies R Us, and you would go and do it at Babies R Us.
Kai RyssdalHOST
And, and now it's all on the phone, right? It's all on your mobile.
Chabeli CarrazanaGUEST
[laughs] It's Babies R Us.
Chabeli CarrazanaGUEST
It's Buy Buy Baby.
Kai RyssdalHOST
Right.
Kai RyssdalHOST
We are, of course, a digital online economy now.
Kai RyssdalHOST
Back when my kids were little, there was literally there was Babies R Us and you would go and do it at Babies R Us.
Kai RyssdalHOST
And now it's all on the phone, right? It's all on your mobile.
Chabeli CarrazanaGUEST
It's Babies R Us.
Chabeli CarrazanaGUEST
It's Bye Bye Baby.
Chabeli CarrazanaGUEST
We went to all those, which are gone now, but we went to a Prego Expo.
Vicki WolfrumGUEST
Because I found huge differences.
Vicki WolfrumGUEST
And a lot of times we think of the big stores like Target, Babies R Us, Walmart, Buy Buy Baby, et cetera, as having the best prices.
Sunny GaltHOST
Mm-hmm.
Vicki WolfrumGUEST
But, um, I know one of the things I looked at was, uh, a, a Dooley, uh, a BOB Dooley Revolution Stroller.