So long Toys R Us. The retail apacolypse
In what is becoming a long and sad list of retail bankruptcies and closures, the iconic Toys R Us is finished. After 69 years, Toys R Us is closing 700 stores, liquidating assets and 33,000 employees will be losing their jobs.
A retail apocalypse? With another 23 big retailers closing stores this year, 6700 store closings in 2017 alone, some 8600 stores projected to close in 2018, America will lose some 147 million square feet or retail space this year.
Times sure are changing fast. :scratch2:
So long Toys R Us, the countless trips to your stores with the kids, their smiles, their excitement and happy faces from toddlers to nearly teen years will always remain in my memories. Hardly able to contain their excitement as they would run into the store and browse for that latest Lego set, or a puzzle, a board game or the latest toys that was all the buzz, along the countless isles of all the great toys neatly sitting on shelves waiting for the kids to take them home was always a treat for the kids.
Opening a box from Amazon with that next toy the parents bought online can never replace the actual shopping experience at what must have been the absolute favorite place to visit for any kid. Where magic happened and dreams came true.... So long Geoffrey the Giraffe, the kids will miss you. :tears:
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