Toys 'R' US Heading for Closure

[bayonetbrant]

Yeah, I've got a 14-year-old with a girlfriend.  I end up dropping them at the mall all too often...

Fortunately the local one here (1) isn't that far away, (2) has a Barnes & Noble, and (3) has a bunch of pretty nice "living rooms" set up around the mall as seating areas for folks like me to just chill out in...

[bbmike]

Yeah, I've got a 14-year-old with a girlfriend.  I end up dropping them at the mall all too often...

Fortunately the local one here (1) isn't that far away, (2) has a Barnes & Noble, and (3) has a bunch of pretty nice "living rooms" set up around the mall as seating areas for folks like me to just chill out in...

Where you proceed to drain your phone battery playing 7 Wonders.  :-"

[bayonetbrant]

Where you proceed to drain your phone battery playing 7 Wonders.  :-"

that or watching semi-professional steampunk fan-movies on my Kindle...

[yt]https://youtu.be/0RG0BO2P78E[/yt]

[Gusington]

I used to love it when I was a teenager. Spent hours going from dork shop to dork shop, oggling girls along the way. Now I do that on the internet where I can be a creepy lech in private.

[Sir Slash]

I always thought if a smart company could put hot girls in charge of selling video games, they could rule the world. And not just the Nerd World either.

[Gusington]

Your avatar rules the nerd world.

[BanzaiCat]

I worked for about three days back in the 90s as an overnight worker at a local Toys-R-Us, doing re-stocking and such.

[Nefaro]

I remember buying many of my Amiga games at Toys-R-Us--- Red Storm Rising and Pool of Radiance to be sure.

I actually picked up RSR, and the first Madden Football, for C64 in the same shop I bought my tabletop wargames and RPGs as a kid in the '80s. 

Would only go there once or twice a month while visiting.  Something that always stuck with me was the car accidents I'd often witness when going in or out of that specific store.  Never happened at other places I was dragged on shopping sprees, as a kid.  Loud bang-up fender benders on the street out front.  Dunno how many times that happened when I was walking in or out, but it was at least three.  Screeeeech-BANG!  :o 

Always glad I didn't have to cross the street there.  That place must've been like a Mad Max movie.  Wasn't a bad neighborhood, though.

Wish I could remember the name of the hobby store.  Was gone a long time ago, IIRC.

[Steelgrave]

I bought Avalon Hill's Midway, my first wargame ever, at Toys 'R' US. After that fateful purchase, TRU was the first place I checked for wargames afterward, snagging Third Reich, Panzer Blitz and a helluva lot of my AH collection from there. When my boys were, well, boys, we were stationed in Wichita Falls, Texas when they opened their first TRU. Nothing would do but what we were there when the doors opened for the first time. The aisles were packed, and we learned afterwards that little store in little Wichita Falls had set an opening day sales record for the entire company.

Sadly, I'm as responsible as many for Toy's 'R' Us closing their doors. Online shopping is simply too easy for someone like me who doesn't really like to shop. I probably haven't been into a TRU more than twice over the last 4 years. I hate to see them go, and I would sincerely promise to be a better customer if they kept their doors open....but I probably wouldn't :P

[BanzaiCat]

Same here, bought my first wargame at a TRU, too - Luftwaffe.

[bayonetbrant]

https://www-washingtonpost-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/toys-r-us-still-sells-lots-of-toys-heres-why-its-going-under/2018/03/11/ab4721b8-2538-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html

[bayonetbrant]

http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/14/news/companies/toys-r-us-closing-stores/index.html

[mirth]

https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/974542834962391040

[mirth]

https://twitter.com/AlexisGirlNovak/status/974447225311907840

[Staggerwing]

No worries- he'll just move on to Build-a-bear.