Toys & R & # 39; Us final days, as buyers say goodbye

It's finally the time of the closing of Toys' R & # 39; Us, the distressed toy chain with which many of us have grown up.

Struck by both the shift to online shopping and the trend of children preferring downloadable video games, the chain closes its last 200 stores this Friday.

In recent days, many parents and children stop not only for last-minute bargains, but also to say goodbye to part of their childhood.

We found kids from Toys' R & # 39; They, young and old, who walked in a closed shop to do good business.

Mom Christine Bowie brought her three children to bargain hunting.

"The kids had fun," she said. "They had toys for 20 cents."

But Bowie, who shopped there with her mother when she was a kid, said for her, it was no longer a chance to take a last look at a missing piece of art. American history: the toy store.

"It's really really sad," she said. "It's depressing, I feel really bad for everyone."

What's left inside

We went inside and found a little more than leftover toys for sale, rows of empty shelves, mismatched products set in shopping baskets, and yellow ribbon. Warning everywhere.

It looked like a scene from a post-apocalyptic film, a world looking for a hero like Mad Max to save him, or maybe a team of Skylanders, on the only heroes of his life. action still for sale. (Obviously, the chain ordered too many Skylander figures, we found dozens still for sale, only 39 cents each)

"It looks like a ghost place," said Gus Dudley picking up some toys for his young son.

A row of buyers recovered the remaining 60% toys, 70% clothes, and even the office furniture in the back-offices of the store.

Babies 'Babies' Register R & # 39; Us, used by thousands of new parents, was dark and empty, and there were more newborns on the list.

But with so few goods left on the shelves, for many parents, it was more like final memories.

If you have grown up as a kid's Toys' R & # 39; Us, then brought your kids here for Barbies, Power Rangers, Thomas Engine Tank trains, and Lego Star Wars, you could also be like Julie Castilla, emotional to see him go.

"Yeah, it's goodbye to our child store," she said.

With regard to the future, Party City plans to rent some of the stores that will serve as Halloween and Christmas stores, but after that, more than 200 stores Toys' R & # 39; They will only be empty buildings – and a memory of a time past for many of us.

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