GOODBYE: The Last Two Toys R Us Stores Follow Blockbuster To Graveyard Of '90s Retail Icons

It's Wyomissing, Pa.

It's a fairly wealthy area tbh.

The good ole days.

Yeah, Amazon is going to put them all under.

Walking around my area you can see piles of Amazon boxes on many porches and in the trash with Amazon trucks and vans stalking the streets.

Good, it spoiled a bunch of kids!

BYE

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We could blame all kinds of invisible forces or nefarious plots, or we could simply point out that the biggest group of consumers right now are stretched unbearably thin, and prioritize time with family over shopping. This has been going on since the invention of online retail. 15-45 year olds don’t have the time to go to the mall...I hated goi g shopping my whole life. Ordering is infinitely more convenient.

No one is plotting to make you a slave. Jus because your generation enjoyed the mall doesn’t mean millennials, X or Z care about food courts. The most evil shut going on is just how rich bezos got by selling us everything conveniently.

Meanwhile, Toys R us Europe is doing just fine, in fact, better than fine.

The pendulum always swings back, give it time.

Incredible right? Looting companies that were great for employees, customers, local taxes, local commercial real estate...just to suck the money out of them like a vampire.

I always hated toys R us. Extremely overpriced and over crowded shopping experience. OK when the kids were young I might checkout the fad toy of the year with them to pass some time but then order it from elsewhere for Xmas and birthdays.

Likewise with Blockbusters they were damn lucky to survived for so long. When all we had was VHS tapes they wanted double the rental cost of your small local stores. Likewise with DVD's im still shocked when some people actual spend good money on rehashed TV series box sets and another bundle of Harry Potter collection when my last CD DVD purchase was back around 2002.

Meanwhile in Texas... everything is open and thriving.

>because we didn't use Dominion machines<

Thanks to whoever wrote this.... above.

Private equity, vulture capitalism... Gutted by greed.

Leverage into the billions and rather than use the money for the business, the executives pay it to themselves as commissions, bonuses, and "operating expenses".

The zombie carcass remains for a few more rounds of "debt restructuring" (more leverage) until it's dead.

Amazon didn't put these retailers out of business, the execs did.

All of the unpaid debt is put on the public balance sheet to boot! Enjoy :)

Internet and social media narcissism destroyed the toy industry. If you look at the large majority of buyers of toys and collectibles, even board games, it's from adult collectors.

Adults, many 'streamers' and 'content creators' have various toys on their shelves and walls for display... not play.

Meanwhile 8-12 year old's are more concerned in getting an iPhone or tablet, anything they can use to feed their growing narcissism, instead of action figures and dolls.

Go to school with a $1200 phone and you are a star... try showing off a $10 action figure or doll, not going to win you 'popularity' contests.

This is why the toy companies are marketing high end custom and limited designs, reproductions etc... to adult collectors.

Much like everything else in CLOWN WORLD, everything is inverted and perverted. Adults wanting toys for their collection and kids wanting high end tech at younger and younger ages.

Society is broken. It's not coming back. This is end times stuff on every level, in every aspect. The toy industry is just one example of a greater whole... the Fall of humanity.

Toys used to be about fun and imagination. Now young kids want digital items in their games, nothing real or tangible. They are hive minded and want what others have. Not something that feels like their own.

Don't you see the bigger picture here? You've all become monsters and don't even realize it.

Gone but Not Forgotten .

Was in Best Buy about 2 months ago - never again ! As soon as I walked in I was descended on by 4 employee vultures.
All I wanted was a high end surge protector.
After I got what I wanted, I was constantly harassed by some fool employee
that wanted me to buy a Verizon Cell Phone and contract. Kept telling him "no" I don't need a cell phone - he followed me all around the store.
When I got to the register, I dropped the surge protector on the floor in the main isle, told Mr Verizon to "fuck off" and walked out of the store.
And you are right, there wasn't shit on display or on the shelves....

I only went a couple times but man I loved toys r us when I was a kid.

These were not old Toys R Us stores. Those had all shut down earlier.

These were two stores that were to be the beginning of a comeback effort. Sadly, they opened in November 2019, something like 1-2 months before we began to hear the first news of a pandemic in China.

Right. into. a. buzzsaw.

I don't care. I can order all that bullshit online.

I wasn't impressed.

Exactly. It's so unfortunate.

Toys R Us has been around since the 70s. And there is actually 1 Blockbuster left in Bend, Oregon.