# Toys R Us Going Out Of Business.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-r-us-going-out-of-business/294742>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 16, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-r-us-going-out-of-business/294742 "2005-03-16T02:26:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-r-us-going-out-of-business/294742/21 "2005-03-16T18:01:28Z")

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If they do go out of business, can we call them Toys Were Us?

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-r-us-going-out-of-business/294742/22 "2005-03-16T18:20:08Z")

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Personally, I hope they sink.

They have nothing in their stores that inspire creativity and imagination with kids. It is all commercialed plastic crap.  
\<--------------------Does bidness with indy toy store owners who _care_.

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**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-r-us-going-out-of-business/294742/23 "2005-03-16T18:32:15Z")

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It’s not a backwards “R”, it’s a Cyrillic “ya”. Therefore it should be pronounced “Toys Ya Us.”  
Ok. I got nothing else.

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**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-r-us-going-out-of-business/294742/24 "2005-03-16T18:51:19Z")

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I just thought I should point out the avalibility of classic commercials at:

[http://www.x-entertainment.com/downloads/](http://www.x-entertainment.com/downloads/)

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-r-us-going-out-of-business/294742/25 "2005-03-16T19:04:37Z")

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I like Toys R Us. True, it had everything wrong with it people said. It was commercialized, and didn’t particularly inspire creativity or anything to young kids.

Try telling that to a young kid who gets bribed to go shopping with Mommy because at the end they get to stop by Toys R Us. Not even to buy anything, but just because it was a fun place.

I’m glad to hear they’re not actually going out of business. I still prefer board games from there than from say, Wal-Mart or anything.

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**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-r-us-going-out-of-business/294742/26 "2005-03-16T19:18:00Z")

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> [@Shirley Ujest](#):
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> Personally, I hope they sink.
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> They have nothing in their stores that inspire creativity and imagination with kids. It is all commercialed plastic crap.  
> \<--------------------Does bidness with indy toy store owners who _care_.

Absolutely. I will no longer shop at TRU–that and the damned R.

They have no intelligent toys for kids–and the baby stuff! There is hardly anything that does not light up, make noise etc. I gave up on them about 2 years ago when I couldn’t find simple baby toys–boxes where the shapes are cut out and baby has to put in the corresponding piece–things like that.  
That and they consistently only had one line open at all times.  
I wish they would fail, seriously.

(I do remember when they were BargainTown, though–I’m old!)

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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-r-us-going-out-of-business/294742/27 "2005-03-16T19:57:08Z")

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Have _any_ of you ever been to a Toys R’ Us that had more than one working cashier? Anybody? Bueller? Didn’t think so.

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**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-r-us-going-out-of-business/294742/28 "2005-03-16T20:10:11Z")

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I went to TRU to get a semi-gag gift for my wife and it was so depressing it mad me glad I didn’t have to shop there on a regular basis. The camelback location in Phoenix looks abandonded but they manage to keep the doors open.

There was a time a more vibrant TRU would have sent their lawyers after a store like “Guns 'R Us/Postal Plus\*” in Phoenix but they managed to go out of business on their own quite nicely.  
\*Yes, it did exist.

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-r-us-going-out-of-business/294742/29 "2005-03-16T21:42:13Z")

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> [@Padeye](#):
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> I went to TRU to get a semi-gag gift for my wife and it was so depressing it mad me glad I didn’t have to shop there on a regular basis. The camelback location in Phoenix looks abandonded but they manage to keep the doors open.

The one near us was a real slum a few years ago, but they have remodeled and it looks nice now. But I’ve been maybe a dozen times to any of them since my kids got out of diapers 15 years ago. That my wife was reviewing toys and got big shipments from the toy manufacturers had something to do with it. 🙂

Alas, I doubt people will go to the indies, but instead will go to WalMart which is worse than ToysRUs in every way. The race to the bottom continues.

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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toys-r-us-going-out-of-business/294742/30 "2005-03-16T23:08:29Z")

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> [@Padeye](#):
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> I went to TRU to get a semi-gag gift for my wife and it was so depressing it mad me glad I didn’t have to shop there on a regular basis. The camelback location in Phoenix looks abandonded but they manage to keep the doors open.

I haven’t seen that one but it sounds like the one on Independence Blvd. in Charlotte. When I was in high school we used to skip class and go there to mess around with the toys and we’d almost always be the only ones in the store. We’d rarely even see employees, and when we did they’d just stroll by, ignoring us and the fact that we were shooting basketball or swordfighting. It was eery.

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