Abandoned - Toys R Us

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”Toys Were Us” :(

RIP future children will never know the feeling of steping into a toys R us

“A new, rising retail chain called Walmart” oh no

it ALWAYS amazed me how Walmart, with 2 aisles of toys could put a warehouse sized TOY STORE out of business. Amazing.

Does anyone else remember looking forward to reading the toys r us Christmas catalog each year?

almost all of these store episodes, Walmart is basically a villain.

in nebraska a liquor store overtook the buildings and they still use the colors and carts and baskets, its amazing. they missed out by not calling it booze r us tho

I'm so happy that there's one in the American Dream Mall ^^ I actually got to go there and I walked into it in tears. It felt like a blast from the past and I felt like I was a kid again

Every store in the 90s: Wow, things are going so well for us! Late 90s: "A new rising retail chain called Walmart..."

Just walking into Toys R Us when you where very young was like walking into paradise. Toys all around you. Was amazing, Having been a "Toys R Us Kid" I can say that it was one of my most visited shops from when I was around 3 or 4 years old. It really is sad to see it like like that. I went into my local one to pick some stuff up before it closed and it was just so sad. Its like when you wake up from that really good dream. Truly a sad sight to see. So Toys R us, You will be forever in our hearts. Thank you for making my childhood.

There was a Toys R Us store about 20 minutes from my house, that I used to love going to as a kid. It got sold off around 2017, and it became an Ollie's Bargain Outlet. The front of the store still has the rainbow tile lining the front doors and windows, so you could always tell it used to be an old Toys R Us.

The small Toys R Us at Macy's will never be the same as the original stores. I still remember the last thing my mom got me from Toys R Us.

Walmart is the villain of every Abandoned episode.

On a side note, Charles Lazarus-- the company's founder--died about a week after the company announced it was liquidating it's assets. He went down with the company.

Fond memories of when my kids were small and going Christmas shopping for them. I sure loved those days

I worked at a TRU for a month in December one year in college, late 80's. I remember 12 hr days, fighting to get to take a lunch or even a 10 minute break, hours of straightening up shelves at the end of the night, sometimes to 2 or 3 a.m., and gathering up carts full of ripped packaging (they called it "shrink" but it was basically shoplifted remains...) and I especially remember ringing up $4-5k sales, only to have someone's credit card rejected. Good times... After one especially long Saturday I was called in the office to explain why my register was off by a few cents - I apologized, thinking I'd done something wrong, and they told me registers were routinely off by $100's and how did I manage to keep my til balanced? Quite an experience for 19-yr-old me.

gah, looking at the store's website is really sad, partially because it's so empty now, and partially because of the super sweet little message currently at the top of the page: "Thanks you each of you who shared your amazing journey to (and through) parenthood with us, and to every grandparent, aunt, uncle, brother and sister who's built a couch-cushion rocket ship, made up a hero adventure, or invented something gooey. Promise us just this one thing: Don't ever grow up. Play on!" God, it's weird feeling so nostalgic and sad for a major corporation but here we are...

Toy’s R’ Us: kills off other toy brands Walmart: uno reverse card

Seeing some of those dated interior shots just brought a flood of memories back. A trip to toys r us was a rare treat even though a lot of the more expensive toys just weren't in the budget I still remember my excitement just getting a 5 pack of hotwheels cars or something. When the local one was closing up in 2018 I had to stop, not to buy anything but just to have a walk around because I knew I'd never get to again.. It was such an eerie feeling as an adult to wander around a store that seemed so big and full of excitement when I was a kid, instead the colorful and playful displays against a backdrop of ransacked shelves and unwanted kids toys left here and there.. It was honestly a bit heartbreaking to see, and think kids now really don't get that experience of wonder walking though aisle after aisle of stuff they might only dream of getting for christmas. Do children even still get excited about toys now that they're practically given a screen to play with at such young ages?