Toys R Us No Longer Accepting Online Orders, Linking to goodbuytoysrus.com

So I wonder where all of the online and warehouse stock is going to end up? Probably wont be going into the closing stores. I feel like liquidation stores big and small are going to be amazing come the holiday season. I'm really looking forward to seeing what shows up at the local salvage stores come October or so.

Emerje

i had never picked up grotusque, and the website had him in stock. so when i got paid and had the money to buy him, i went online and found this. bad things come to those who wait lol

I'll bid a Box of Costco sized tissues for all you Americans to wipe your tears away because Canada is going to keep having TRU.

the last thing online i got was TR arcee and the last thing i got at the store was the Chaos on Velocitron set that was toward the holidays but since then every time i go in there they are either always out of POTP and masterpiece stuff or only have the shelf warmers i already have but always too much of the last night and robots in disguise merchandise

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Galactic Prime wrote:I'll bid a Box of Costco sized tissues for all you Americans to wipe your tears away because Canada is going to keep having TRU.

I'll add this.

I was making terrible jokes at the expense of all my american compatriots today with my wife when I strolled into a fully stocked TRU in Canada that was alive and well.

And picked these up for a friend:



Toys the US never got at retail from a store the US no longer has.

Thought about taking the journey down to the one remaining TRU in the state next week while I'm on vacation, but it isn't showing up on the store locator. Either the locator is broken or they abruptly closed down all of the stores in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, the nearest one to me is in Massachusetts now.

I guess I can't be too surprised, they probably don't have any staff left working in them. I found a local article talking about how they've always had retention issues and have had a parade of other stores' recruiters coming in and leaving their business cards in the break room recently.



Emerje

If you still have a TRU giftcard you can use it at Bed Bath and Beyond.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/03/pf/bed- ... index.html

I agree that it's a sad trade but it's better than nothing. Bed Bath and Beyond does have candy though.

It seems, while there are no new shipments, the TRU's are redistributing product to stores that have higher customer sales. There are roughly 4 stores within a 20 mile radius of my home. I was a bit taken back when I went to the store nearest me a couple days ago and they appeared to have new product. The store clerk told me they were getting shipments of product from other stores closing down, and that "they would be the last to close" (now I assume that meant for our local area, not for the whole country...) . Still since most things I'm interested in were still only at 10% off, that's still higher than walmart or target, so I'm still waiting patiently for the sale amounts to increase enough to make it worth my while.

There were 2 stores in the bay Area, and one small outlet store in my area slated to close, even before the mass closing. It will be interesting to see indeed how long it takes for all the stores to close down. At this rate, I cant see it happening as soon as May, unless some deep discounts come pretty quickly. I guess I'm just comparing it to K-Mart. In my area it took several months foi rthe store to close. It died a slow death as the quantity of product grew to be less and less. I imagine the same for TRU, but I guess conceivably they could close before selling the majority of their product. I just have no idea where the unsold toys would go. Seems like a huge waste to send them back to their respective manufacturers, and I'm not sure if TRU would ship them directly to places like Marshalls, Ross or TJ Maxx.

Galactic Prime wrote:LOL you want to talk slow painful death you should have seen Target in Canada. It started the day they opened

Man, I'm still bumbed about it. That was another place to hunt and they had the exclusives that I didn't had to import for once.

Sigh, too bad they were just "Walmart lite". Seriously, even Sears have gone under. The Bay need to double down on being high-class or their turn is next.