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To: Condor who wrote (790)	9/21/1999 5:47:00 PM
From: Frank Gilkeson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1296

I visited the new Toys International store at Pier 39 in SF today. I was told that it had been open about a week. The store is huge and is stocked to the gills. It occupies a prime location at the end of the first level between the merry-go-round and the batchelor pinaped pier and is right next door to the Disney Store. As stated the store is huge, it must be the biggest commercial store in pier 39 and is at least 4x's the size of the Disney Store. While SF attracts large numbers of tourists all year around, summer is over and crowds were small at Pier 39 on a warm morning in September. Pier 39 is for tourists, I believe that few natives go there and it is hard for me to imagine locals going there intentionally to purchase toys, even in the Christmas season, when they can go to their local mall instead. The store is gigantic, what you would expect in a major suburban shopping mall. Parking is a long way off. So let me see, locals are going to drive in from the suburbs to shop here? not! Real San Franciscans are going to go to a tourist venue to Christmas shop? not! Folks from Dubuque and Peoria visiting SF in the off-season are going to make large impulse purchases and then struggle back to their hotel rooms with their booty and then ups them home or store them in the overhead bins? -maybe. Long and thinking about it. thx.