After quietly closing stores, Rooms + Spaces merchandise creeping into Toys "R" Us
BNN Bloomberg
Only a few steps into a Toys “R” Us store just north of Toronto, it’s obvious something is up at the childhood mecca.
Stacks of beer and whisky glasses sit alongside Beatles records and band T-shirts in the entrance way of the Vaughan Mills mall location one June weekend. Roam the rest of the store and among the rows of toys, there are now aisles dedicated to pillows and beauty products and an entire department for kitchen and home decor.
Most of the items bear fluorescent signs advertising 40 per cent off products labelled as being from Rooms + Spaces, the home goods retailer Toys “R” Us Canada's owner Putman Investments opened in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic.
What happened to the chain, which appears to have shrunk from 24 stores to two in roughly a year, is a mystery.
