Toy stores are amazing to me. I love to see children run around and pick up this and that. For this assignment I visited a variety of stores. Two in particular stood out to me. Those two were Walmart and Walgreens. While you would not normally think Walgreens as a toy store it is. In this paper I came going to compare both Walmart and Walgreens and I am going to do that by answering each of the questions provided on the assignment sheet.
The toys are mostly aimed for boys in Walgreens. The colors could be posed as neutral colors; however, they target boys being that they are sports toys. They site in the middle of the store and are lined up usually with a basketball somewhere in plain site. While in the store I never once saw a girl go to …show more content…
This as in class caused a big problem with Target. I am not sure as to why Walmart has not followed suit because since Gender rules are becoming nonexistent and things are becoming gender neutral. I am sure these aisle pictures will be changing. Yes, there are more gender neutral toys for ages like 3 and up there were a couple 8 and up, but these were board games keep in mind. The gender neutral toys were further down than the gender specific aisle toys so they were not as advertised as the rest of the toy aisles.
Basically, both of the stores I visited were both gender specific when it came to toys. Walgreens was less gender specific, but I think that was due to toy section. Walgreens was big on color attraction not naming the aisles like Walmart. Both stores would have a negative impact on how children interact with toys and other children if they would like to play with something that is considered a “boy’s” toy. This would make the children feel socially deviant if they wanted to play with toys such as trucks and Legos if it were not their gender. Having children play with gender specific toys would not teach them any variance. It would teach them that only boys can play this certain toys and girls can play with certain toys. This would in turn have children not play with each other. This would also cause bullying due to after children reach that certain age they tend to pick on children who do not fit the social norm, however, for children who do not like trucks and Legos and prefer dolls having gender specific toys would cause problems for
The toys are mostly aimed for boys in Walgreens. The colors could be posed as neutral colors; however, they target boys being that they are sports toys. They site in the middle of the store and are lined up usually with a basketball somewhere in plain site. While in the store I never once saw a girl go to …show more content…
This as in class caused a big problem with Target. I am not sure as to why Walmart has not followed suit because since Gender rules are becoming nonexistent and things are becoming gender neutral. I am sure these aisle pictures will be changing. Yes, there are more gender neutral toys for ages like 3 and up there were a couple 8 and up, but these were board games keep in mind. The gender neutral toys were further down than the gender specific aisle toys so they were not as advertised as the rest of the toy aisles.
Basically, both of the stores I visited were both gender specific when it came to toys. Walgreens was less gender specific, but I think that was due to toy section. Walgreens was big on color attraction not naming the aisles like Walmart. Both stores would have a negative impact on how children interact with toys and other children if they would like to play with something that is considered a “boy’s” toy. This would make the children feel socially deviant if they wanted to play with toys such as trucks and Legos if it were not their gender. Having children play with gender specific toys would not teach them any variance. It would teach them that only boys can play this certain toys and girls can play with certain toys. This would in turn have children not play with each other. This would also cause bullying due to after children reach that certain age they tend to pick on children who do not fit the social norm, however, for children who do not like trucks and Legos and prefer dolls having gender specific toys would cause problems for