{"id":14092,"date":"2018-03-19T23:41:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T03:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=14092"},"modified":"2018-03-19T23:41:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T03:41:56","slug":"toys-%d0%af-us-140-columbiana-drive-spring-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=14092","title":{"rendered":"Toys '\u042f' Us, 140 Columbiana Drive: Spring 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1490997.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1490997_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1490997_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1490997_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1490998.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1490998_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1490998_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1490998_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500001_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1500001_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1500001_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500002_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1500002_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1500002_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500003.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500003_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1500003_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1500003_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So fare there are no signs advertising big closings savings at the <i>Toys 'R' US<\/i> Columbiana Mall outparcel site in Harbison, but it's just a matter of time as the firm officially threw in the towel last week and says it will not emerge from bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p>I missed the golden age of <i>Toys 'R' Us<\/i>, and in fact don't think I've ever been into a store.  For us, the big thing was the Sears Christmas Wishbook with wonders on every page, here's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2018-03-15\/toys-r-us-is-closing-an-appreciation-by-stephen-l-carter\">an appreciation<\/a> from someone who was not too old for the golden age, along with some reminders that <i>Toys 'R' Us<\/i> has been in and out of trouble for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing is that while TRU doesn't sell as many toys as it used to, it still sells a *<i>lot<\/i>* of toys, and you have to wonder how bad the debts must be if you have bankruptcy protection and can't come up with a viable plan for the way forward while you are still selling lots of toys.<\/p>\n<p>A few links:<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/17\/news\/companies\/toys-r-us-closing-questions-answered\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>, the timing of closing sales and the final closing have yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>A trademark collector <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/03\/19\/kb-toys-planning-comeback-after-demise-of-toys-r-us\/\">may be bringing KB Toys back<\/a> as popup stores due to the TRU bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-03-19\/amazon-is-said-to-have-mulled-acquiring-some-toys-r-us-stores\">Amazon may buy some of the stores<\/a> though I wouldn't hold my breath for the Columbia area.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say this store does not look appealing to me.  It looks a bit run down, boxy and not 'fun'.  I realize there are limits to what you can do with stodgy Columbia codes, but to me something like *<i>this<\/i>* says TOY STORE!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1480003.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1480003_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1480003_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1480003_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally, thanks, guys, for that whole backwards '\u042f' thing. Not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So fare there are no signs advertising big closings savings at the Toys 'R' US Columbiana Mall outparcel site in Harbison, but it's just a matter of time as the firm officially threw in the towel last week and says it will not emerge from bankruptcy. I missed the golden age of Toys 'R' Us, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[2495,491,188,4,381],"class_list":["post-14092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-140-columbiana-drive","tag-columbiana-drive","tag-harbison","tag-stores","tag-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}