Never underestimate the market-moving potential of a nagging child. “Mom, Dad, I want THIS for Christmas!” is a phrase that each year leads to billions of dollars of toy sales. And it’s a phrase ...

Mail-order catalogs have been mostly dead for a while, but now Amazon is putting a new twist on the idea for the digital shopping age. But to the retailer, that’s the entire point. Just stop saying ...

The Amazon Holiday Kids Gift Book, which recently hit mailboxes months ahead of Christmas, has become the modern child's wish book--a glossy stand-in for the toy store aisles their parents once roamed ...

The e-retailer has confirmed it will mail its first printed toy catalog to millions of customers this month, reports CNBC. The catalog, titled “A Holiday of Play,” is a throwback to the old Toys R Us ...

Last July, we wrote that Amazon is attempting to fill the void left by the recent demise of Toys R Us and would publish a holiday toy catalog, a strategy often employed by brick-and-mortar retailers.

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Kurt Schlosser on Oct 6, 2025 at 9:22 am October 6, 2025 at 9:22 am ...

That’s not a computer. Amazon sent an actual printed holiday catalog in the mail and at least two kids got a kick out of turning the pages. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Forty or so years after I ...