It seems like things were finally getting back to normal.” “It makes you worry that bad things are happening with the economy again, and I don’t want it to get as bad as it was. “It’s always disappointing to see stores closing,” the 34-year-old Santa Clarita resident said. The toy industry has been hampered by lower sales for the past few quarters in the face of growing demand for other forms of entertainment, including video games, MP3 players, tablets, smartphones and other electronic devices.Īnd it doesn’t help that more and more customers are buying their toys and other merchandise through Amazon and other online outlets.Īmanda Jones stopped in early Wednesday at a Babies ‘R’ Us store in Santa Clarita that will be among the closures. In a statement posted on the company’s website, the New Jersey-based retail chain said the closures were “part of the next step in the restructuring process and overall turnaround plan.” Riverside: 2550 Canyon Springs Parkway S.Toys ‘R’ Us:Ĭombination Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us stores: Here is the full list of Southern California stores that will be affected. The fact that they have gone this long is a bit of a shock to me.” This is just the continuing evolution of the retail space. “Toys and electronics just can’t compete in a normal way with Amazon. “Toys ‘R’ Us was already on death watch,” he said. ‘Death watch’Įconomist Christopher Thornberg of Beacon Economics said the move isn’t surprising. According to numerous reports, liquidation sales will begin in February, with doors closing permanently by April. That equates to about a fifth of the company’s brick-and-mortar operations. It gets even more bonkers because Browne then struck up some pseudo-relationship with the ghost of Johnny Johnson (we're definitely starting to hear a folk song hidden in that name).Toys ‘R’ Us announced Tuesday it will close as many as 182 Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us stores nationwide - including 14 in Southern California - as part of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization plan. She, however, didn't much care for our Johnny and instead ran off with some lawyer guy, leaving sad Johnny Johnson to die alone after - checks notes - accidentally chopping his leg off instead of a tree and bleeding to death before he could find help. Johnny Johnson - we're saying his full name again because if you say something enough times, it'll sound more real and not totally made up - fell in love with farmer Murphy's daughter, Elizabeth. It wasn't long before medium Sylvia Browne was summoned to perform a séance inside the store because that's probably just the most Californian thing to do.īrowne claimed that the ghost who ended up haunting the newly-built Toys' R' Us store was a Swedish preacher named Johnny Johnson (really?) who worked on the Murphy farm in the 1880s before it became the city of Sunnyvale. The spooktacular stories (told by employees, mostly) ranged from flying dolls and stuff just generally being out of place to people claiming cold breezes, phantom hands, and an eerie voice calling out to them. The now-defunct toy store in Sunnyvale, CA, was built in 1970 and almost immediately said to be haunted. Paramount Pictures And no shirtless Swayze. Sort of like the scene in Ghost, but instead of a pottery wheel, it was a Rubik's Cube. No, we're also talking about a movie featuring a psychic woman who ends up in a bizarre relationship with the ghost who decided to go hang out in a toy store forever. But here we are, filmless and flabbergasted, because we're not only talking about '70s sepia filters over shots of balls bouncing down aisles at random and Rock' Em Sock 'Em Robots coming alive and kicking the crap out of each other. Honestly, how a toy store being haunted in California during the '70s hasn't been turned into a movie already makes as much sense as a toy store actually being haunted.
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