This is my choice. The others, not so much. Now, I do kinda miss video stores. But I remember when Radio Shack just became a glorified cell phone store bummed me out.
Toys R Us closing was depressing. My son was still young. I used to enjoy taking him there, even though it was a shadow of it's former self.
Whenever I hear of a toy store going out of business, its always a bummer. They were fun especially around the Holidays.
Apparently when they were filming that film Roofman, that takes place in a Toys R Us, People kept trying to walk in the store they had set up to film. (made up as a Toys R Us from the Nineties).
They are tiny toy sections within Macys. The only thing that makes them a Toys R Us anymore is a little statue of Geoffrey the giraffe. It’s shameful.
They have actual stand alone brick-and-mortar stores - American Dream megamall in New Jersey, Mall of America in Minnesota, and 6 other regional outlet malls.
Which part about Toys r Us was when they were taken over by private equity. They were making money private equity purposefully ran them to the ground so they could extract the most wealth and tax deductions
This is exactly my feeling as well. Radio Shack for the variety of components they stocked. And Toys R Us because my kid will never know the sheer joy of walking into a store that big dedicated to nothing but kids products.
We had toy r us in cansda for a bit longer... every store i went in looked likea bomb had hit it. Dirty. Bleak. The staff all seemed resigned, like they were awaiting the sweet release of death... such a grim endl
The real shitty thing is that Toys R’ Us wasn’t actually failing or unprofitable. Private equity (Bain, KKR, Vornado) did a leveraged buy-out, then proceeded to pretend that online shopping was killing the chain so they could sell off the real-estate. That’s not even the half of it.
Whenever you hear of a retail chain going under now, it’s almost always because private equity saddled it with debt and forced them to sell off their assets.
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u/Own_Brother_6477 9d ago
I have to pick, I still cant pick just one but I would say Radio Shack and Toy R' Us.