Toys R Us Administration

[TWINSET]

From their FB Page - If you got gift cards, get rid quick!

 

Toys "R" Us Limited ("the Company") – in Administration
Refunds and Exchanges
No exchanges for non-faulty items may be accepted and no refunds will be given.
If the item is faulty then the normal Company policy will be followed in accordance with your statutory rights.

Gift Cards
We are continuing to accept and redeem Gift Cards for purchases made, but please note that we will not be issuing Gift Cards.
No refunds can be given for the balance of the gift cards.

Take Time To Pay Agreements
If you have recently settled your Take Time to Pay agreement and collected your goods, then you are no longer a creditor of the company and no further action is needed.
If you have recently settled your Take Time to Pay agreement but not collected your goods, then you should collect your goods from store as soon as possible.
If you have not settled your Take Time to Pay agreement and not collected your goods then you will need to attend your local store by Sunday 11 March 2018 and either:
(a) Pay the balance for the goods you have included in your Take Time to Pay Agreement. The price of the goods will be the price in store on the day you settle your Take Time to Pay Agreement less the deposit you have already paid;
or
(b) Purchase alternative goods that exceed the value of your deposit.
No cash refunds will be issued in respect of deposits paid prior to the company entering Administration

Gold Card and R Baby Club
Loyalty cards and loyalty points will no longer be issued.

A frequently asked questions document is available at – www.moorfieldscr.com/faq

If you have any further enquiries, then please contact the dedicated Support Centre, telephone number 0333 400 1230.

Arron Kendall and Simon Thomas of Moorfields Advisory Limited, 88 Wood Street, London, EC2V 7QF were appointed Joint Administrators on 28 February 2018. The Administrators now manage the affairs, business and property of the Company. The Administrators act as agents only and without personal liability.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43225248

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/02/28/toys-r-us-collapses-putting-3200-jobs-risk/

[novicelad]

And maplins 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43223175

[Jason1145]

Who said the economy is booming lol? I shall miss Toy R Us when they shut the doors, my daughter could spend a good 20 minutes playing on the slides in there before it got awkward and we'd either have to buy one or move to a different section

[Tamiyabigstuff]

No surprise really - big warehouses full of overpriced junk toys.

Popped into my local one a few months back to see if they had any modelling supplies - paint, glue, etc... - NOTHING, not even Airfix kits.

 

[tamiya3speed]

Toys R Us has always been a special place, first when I was a kid and now that I have children.  The wife and I take the kids there to spend their birthday money every year as a special treat.  It will be sad to see them go.

[nowinaminute]

It is a real shame it has come to this.

When I was a kid, visiting the place was a treat in itself and my daughter loves going there too. It does make me sad to know I'll probably never take her there again :-(

Obviously times change and the Internet rules but you'd think there would be room for just one major toy chain in the country!? 

Makes you wonder if it's another case of of a company being mis-managed into the ground while the chiefs walk away with heavy wallets...

[taffer]

Smyths toy shops seem to be still going? 

[Badcrumble]

A bit like HMV, they didn’t move with the times. Smyths is the firm they could have been - much stronger online presence, discounts, etc

[markbt73]

That is sad to hear. Toys R Us was pretty special, once upon a time. Go shopping with Mom and Dad, beg them to stop in "really quick, I promise," breeze past the bikes and the Barbies and the sports equipment, and head for the model aisle. It seemed like those shelves stretched on forever, impossibly long, impossibly high: airplanes and spaceships and boats at one end, cars at the other. Revell and Monogram and MPC and AMT-Ertl and Lindberg and Testors and Tamiya. They went up in size and complexity as the shelves went up: 1/32 snap-together kits along the bottom, 1/24 kits in the middle, and those glorious Monogram 1/8 and Tamiya 1/12 kits on the top shelf. Unattainable, both physically and financially, but just seeing them up there was exciting.

And across the aisle, the models that moved. Cox .049 engines in everything from control-line airplanes to airboats to dragsters to Star Wars landspeeders. Tyco and Nikko RC cars, resplendent in their clear-fronted packages. Cox and Marui and Tamiya RC kits, not even out on the shelves; just an assembled example of the car, and a pad of orange tickets that you had to take to the front counter if you wanted to buy one. I didn't even dare touch the tickets, but I gazed at them longingly, content with my bright green Snap-Tite Camaro kit, but dreaming of tearing off one of those orange tickets and carrying it reverently to the front of the store, presenting it to the cashier, and walking out with one of those big boxes.

Maybe we never do grow up. Maybe we're all still Toys R Us kids.

[Kingfisher]

The last time I went in the the one near here, it was a disaster. It looked like someone picked up the store and shook it upside down. There was stuff everywhere. You had to step over or around opened toys laying on the ground. None of the shelves were organized correctly. Those bins that they have in the center of the aisle had the toys on the ground all around them. I thought they still had to clean up after the Christmas rush, but Christmas was still four months away. 

[Carts]

They can’t compete with the supermarkets for price. Plus more people shop online. Their prices are well off. Smyths shop down Plymouth always seems busy the couple times been there. 

[TurnipJF]

As a working man I feel for the folks whose jobs are at risk, but as a consumer I can't say I feel any significant sense of loss. I was never particularly impressed with our local branch - expensive and poorly stocked with staff who didn't seem to give two hoots about the customers. 

[Re-Bugged]

Wow another one bits the dust. The Rochester in Kent shop was great for LEGO, Scalextric & Nintendo 64 games (remember those things!!) at one time. Retail is such a tough field now as you have to keep your eye on global competition not just the the other shop down the street anymore. 

[StrokerBoy]

Good riddance.  All the cool individual toy shops died as soon as Toys 'R Us opened their vast soulless warehouses.