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Topic	Toys R' Us to close all 800 Americans stores next week after $5 billion debt
Zeus 03/09/18 8:36:21 PM #18:	streamofthesky posted... Almost as sad as when KB Toys went down (damn you, Romney!) Huh, was that the work of Bain Capital? One more reason to dislike the guy, I guess. darkknight109 posted... There's something undeniably sad about this... End of an era, really. They're also the last real major toy retailer out there, so... I guess that's that. It's a brand that most of us grew up with so it's a little depressing. Plus I'm going to miss their occasional exclusive stuff, like legendary Pokemon promos. Questionmarktarius posted... Far-Queue posted... I live very close to a Toys R Us and they are having a massive liquidation sale. Some pretty good deals. I guess I'll stop by the local one tomorrow... I'm lazy, so I'll probably give them a call first. I stopped in mine back in either early Feb or late January, which I guess was before anything major... although I did pick up a ton of cheap Skylanders and some cheap Disney Infinity stuff (I probably should have bought the other system starter packs at the time. Meh.) Golden Road posted... Mead posted... Im amazed they lasted this long I'm surprised how much they're suffering. I would've thought a toy store would've been one of the most likely kind of places to survive in an e-commerce world, because of the nature of its target audience. Kids can't appreciate buying something online the same way an adult can. This so hard, although I guess parents can just take their kids to a Target or Wal-Mart and let them fool around in the toy section while they shop. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:897503706] in Toys R' Us... [t:76399216]...</cite> <quote><cite>streamofthesky posted...</cite> <quote>Almost as sad as when KB Toys went down (damn you, Romney!)</quote> Huh, was that the work of Bain Capital? One more reason to dislike the guy, I guess. <cite>darkknight109 posted...</cite> <quote>There's something undeniably sad about this...</quote> End of an era, really. They're also the last real major toy retailer out there, so... I guess that's that. It's a brand that most of us grew up with so it's a little depressing. Plus I'm going to miss their occasional exclusive stuff, like legendary Pokemon promos. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Far-Queue posted...</cite> <quote>I live very close to a Toys R Us and they are having a massive liquidation sale. Some pretty good deals.</quote> I guess I'll stop by the local one tomorrow...</quote> I'm lazy, so I'll probably give them a call first. I stopped in mine back in either early Feb or late January, which I guess was before anything major... although I did pick up a ton of cheap Skylanders and some cheap Disney Infinity stuff (I probably should have bought the other system starter packs at the time. Meh.) <cite>Golden Road posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Mead posted...</cite> <quote>Im amazed they lasted this long</quote> I'm surprised how much they're suffering. I would've thought a toy store would've been one of the most likely kind of places to survive in an e-commerce world, because of the nature of its target audience. Kids can't appreciate buying something online the same way an adult can.</quote> This so hard, although I guess parents can just take their kids to a Target or Wal-Mart and let them fool around in the toy section while they shop. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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