Map of the Rise and Fall of Toys "R" Us
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Published 2020-06-29
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A complete list of United States store addresses along with their lease information, retail square footage, phone numbers, and store ID numbers was made available at the time of their bankruptcy.
A .pdf of the complete 139 page bankruptcy filing is available here: cases.primeclerk.com/toyspropcoI/Home-DownloadPDF?…. See Exhibit A for the list of stores.
The addresses of the first 182 store locations was originally posted on the Toys R Us website. It is now only available through the Wayback machine: web.archive.org/web/20180312064242/https://www.toy…
The second and final phase began at the end of March 2018 and involved liquidating all remaining stores. The addresses of all remaining store locations and details of the company’s liquidation was made available through the bankruptcy court filings, linked above. Stores were closed permanently as soon as they had finished liquidating their inventory. The order of the closures was based on each store’s gross square footage. It was assumed that the larger locations would have taken longer to liquidate. The last of the stores were officially closed to customers on June 29 2018.
The per-state store numbers were obtained from archive copies of Toys R Us Inc's annual 10-K filings with the SEC from 1996 to 2017. The numbers before 1996 were collected from various business news articles that covered the history of the company. There was a high volume of relevant business news articles in 2017 and 2018 during the Toys R Us bankruptcy.
You missed Wyoming?
One Toys R Us location supposedly existed in Cheyenne, WY at the Frontier Mall at 1400 Dell Range Blvd. However I can’t confirm that this location was ever opened. According to this post:www.city-data.com/locations/ToysRUs/Wyoming.html, a user reported in 2014, that it didn’t exist. There was no mention of Toys R Us on the Frontier Mall online directory www.frontiermall.com/directory on the Wayback machine. There were no Wyoming locations mentioned in any of the company reports, therefore Toys R Us Wyoming was deliberately excluded from the data.
All Comments (21)
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I used to work at Toys R Us. Most people think that Toys R Us went out of business because of competition from online retailers like Amazon, but, surprisingly, that's not the case here. Toys R Us went under because of exceptionally bad management. In 2005 Toys R Us sold itself for $6.6 billion. This was a debt put on the company by the new owners, and it was a debt that Toys R Us was never able to repay. It was this sale in 2005 which led to the long path towards bankruptcy in 2017.
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Lets take a moment of silence to the people in Wyoming who never had a Toys R us.
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Poor Wyoming never had a Toys R Us.
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One of the reason why Garfield said Wyoming doesn't exist in the Garfield and Friends episode, "It Must Be True" is because Wyoming never had a Toys R Us.
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I blame the fall of Toys R Us on parents no longer giving their kids toys - rather they just give them a phone or an iPad to play on instead
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Do one of "Map of the Rise and Fall of Sears" and "Map of the Rise and Fall of Kmart" please.
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I loved the way the video is made, it takes extreme hard work and patience. Kudos Buddy!
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2018 was the culling year which really ended Toys R Us fast in the United States, at the start of the year there were over 800 locations, but by the end of the year there were 0 remaining. They did come back with 2 new stores in 2020 only for them to close once more in 2021.
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They failed to downsize somewhat during/after the 2009 financial crisis, eventually catching up to them in 2017. Having a few Billion in debt, they failed to secure a buyer, and had to close almost 900 stores, their entire business.
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So weird to see some states with only 1 or 2 toys r us stores. I wonder why they never expanded further in some states.
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Another interesting video - would love to know how you do this.
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There was a Toysrus near the mall where I live. I got most of my Bionicle stuff from there. I also got some Skylanders there. Not only that, but they also had exclusive variants known as the Legendary Skylanders.
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Here from Reddit! Good freaking job,
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I love seeing these visualizations in my Reddit feed!
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Not gonna lie this is the one store I wish would make a comeback it would be so much easier to find presents for my nephews if I just had to go to one place to find a toy.
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0:35 I remember the one in Tennessee. It’s around where I live. I remember my grandma taking me and my cousins to buy toys there. Man I miss that
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I remember going to a Toys R Us in 2013 with my dad a few months before Christmas because I wanted to look for the newest Lego City sets. That same one is a Big Lots today.
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I cannot believe this had to happen. Went there as a kid sometimes.
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In December 2021, Toys R Us opened a flagship store in Rutherford, New Jersey in the American Dream mall. Ah, would you look at that
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The 80s and 90s was good to them!
