Toys ‘R’ Us stores are closing
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| Toys R Us at 5521 Leesburg Pike. [Alisha D./Yelp] |
The Toys “R” Us and Babies “R” Us stores in Bailey’s Crossroads will close within 60 days, as the company is shutting down operations after filing for bankruptcy.
Toys “R” Us Inc. announced March 15 that it has “filed a motion seeking bankruptcy court approval to begin the process of conducting an orderly wind-down of its U.S. business and liquidation of inventory in all 735 of the company’s U.S. stores.” The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September 2017.
Toys “R” Us CEO David Brandon blamed poor holiday sales due to lower prices offered by Walmart, Amazon, and Target.
While Business Insider reports “blowout liquidation sales” could begin in a matter of weeks, a sales associate at the Bailey’s Crossroads location said employees haven’t been notified about big sales yet. Toys “R” Us gift cards will expire in 30 days, as will the store’s loyalty-based “rewards dollars” and “endless earnings.”
8 responses to “Toys ‘R’ Us stores are closing”
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With the shelved Mill Creek/City Diner project and now Toy'r'us shuttering, this is the perfect opportunity for the county to get involved with property owners and developers at these intersections for well thought out projects while upgrading the Seminary/Carlin Springs and Route 7/Carlin Spring intersections and perhaps upgrading the whole stretch of Carlin Spring to Columbia Pike.
What, are you kidding me, this is the anti-development NIMBY section of Fairfax. Damn I guess Penny Gross's holes in her pockets have been all seamed up for I do not see developers falling out of her pockets to come to our rescue.
Trampoline park!
Indoor Golf
Well that is just swell, we can add this to the already high number of vacant big box stores and other retail vacancies in Baileys. Baileys can now be the vacancy capital of the County in a very energized economy. What is the FFX economic and planning boards doing all day besides having town halls and meetings that seem to be resulting in no answers and more junk stores in the area. The vacancies are not the fault of the County, but besides building homeless shelters and a possible Penny Palace, all one can expect further decline of Baileys as community economic zone.
Thank you City Diner for adding to Bailey's decline, we should all boycott that place. BTW the owners moved to Sterling and sold their house in LB for quite a large sum. So much for community centric businesses!
Amazon please come save us; bring us a Whole Foods, one of your new book stores, an HQ Mini, Is there a Wegmans in our future?
HELP!!!
More hate for the city diner. Were you able to get more facts on that (almost) sale or are you still angry for no supportable reason?
People people, I am sure Supervisor Gross has a plan for this area!
I'd like to see Aldi or Lidl replace one of the two stores that's closing.
I'd like to see a Wegman's.