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According to The Wall Street Journal, Toys R Us owes a lot to the biggest toymakers: "Mattel and Hasbro are among Toys 'R' Us's biggest unsecured creditors. Mattel is owed more than $135 million, while Hasbro is owed $59 million

Having been a professional mother and toy buyer for 40 years, I can say that I never liked TRU, and seldom shopped there.

Dirty, unorganized stores, exorbitant prices, terrible checkouts, terrible employees.

I’m surprised they lasted this long.

Amazon is the future. No doubt about it. I ordered some chair slip covers for our RV yesterday and they'll arrive tomorrow. Had tons of choices and if they turn out to be unsatisfactory I'll sent the back free, no questions asked. All this from the privacy of our home. No gas spent driving the 100 mile round trip to the city, fighting the traffic, and going from store to store (if I'm lucky enough to even find any).

Already this month I've ordered some Ariat boots and then a purse which I sent back and reordered.

There's also the free movies, books and music along with the free shipping. Yes, I know I'm paying for that with the prime membership charge but I'm still coming out ahead.

And yes, I know that Amazon is putting malls and people out of business. But that's just the way it is and nothing is going to stop "progress". It's always been that way like it or not.