Toys R Us to close 180 stores across the US

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There was another toy store that competed with Toys R Us many years ago. When my
son was small 30 some years ago I loved to shop at both. I can’t remember the name
of the other one, but they went out of business many years ago. Considering the number of Sears, K-Mart and Penney’s stores that have been closed I am not surprised.
 
Looks like the majority of the closing shift are in Ca Interesting.
 
I remember a few years ago, toys r us was linked to Amazon.
 
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Considering the number of Sears, K-Mart and Penney’s stores that have been closed I am not surprised.
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Sears/K-Mart had the same problem as Toys R Us: poor management by private equity firms. They cash in by taking out massive loans and then paying themselves dividends and management fees while the businesses go bankrupt trying to service the debt.
 
I heard about this when The Last Jedi was released in December. TLJ merchandise had plummeted and the Toys R Us bankruptcy was partially to blame.

I’m not sure what the ultimate future is with brick & mortar stores. Wal Mart is generating huge profits, but 30 years from now I wonder where even it will be as vehicles gradually become automated. You can have a fleet of vehicles transporting merchandise on the highways with human beings at the local level delivering goods. Mediums for making these online purchases such as Amazon, Alibaba, & Ebay will theoretically make huger revenues than ever.

All good things in terms of cost, efficiency, and ecology. A big concern of mine and a topic of interest to me is the inadvertent impact this will have on human socialization & loneliness.
 
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I remember going to amazon if I needed a toy, and toys r us would be the supplier.
 
Yup. Same with Target. If you wanted to order something from Target, Amazon was the shipper/warehouse.
 
I was much relieved ours survived. Other than Target and Walmart their aren’t any other toy sellers within an hour of us.

It’s a product I need to see before I really can decide if it’s something I want to buy, so many toys are just plastic garbage.
 
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I believe you’re thinking of Child World.
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No. It was not called Child World. We did not have one of those in my city. I wish I could think of it.
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I think it was Lionel Play world. It was a big building like Toys R Us not a small mall store like KB Toys.
 
I think KB Toys was national, but they were mostly in malls. They were smaller than Toys R Us. I am thinking it was Lionel Playworld, but it had more than
trains. It was as big as Toys R Us.
 
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I don’t remember Lionel toyworld. I remember toy shopping in department store toy sections. There was a department store in my town that had a few aisles of toys, and also an aisle of small pets, fish and little birds, hamsters.

We also had a neighborhood toy store, which my mother would call “il ladro”, or “the thief” because everything was overpriced.
 
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Many of those small, family owned toy stores are overpriced. We had one in our town and it has gone out of business.

Your Mom made a clever reference to the toy store as “il ladro”. It is the truth!
 
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