I'm worried that we're going to be taken one step further and end up like Toys R Us, in liquidation.
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Toys R would have gone belly up about 14 years ago if not for the fact that their vendors worked with them to keep them OUT of bankruptcy for as long as possible. It did not pay Mattel, etc, to have Target and Wallys as the only toy buyers in the US. They needed to keep the stores competing. In other words, they gave Toys a break on their bills for an awfully long time. Liquidation was inevitable but would have come much sooner. But there were a ton of mistakes TRU made: letting employees get first shot at hot toys, etc, and reserve them. Eventually people didn't even bother going there for items they could sell on secondary markets.