Business Insider/Jessica Tyler The Toys R Us stores we visited were an absolute mess.
- $4 announced in March that it would $4 all 735 of its stores in the United States.
- $4 began shortly after the announcement. The sales will last until stores run out of inventory.
- To see what the stores are like as they near closing, we visited three different Toys R Us locations in New York City.
Toys R Us filed a motion to liquidate its business in the United States in March, just five months after $4. Toys R Us' liquidation includes $4 of its remaining stores, with going-out-of-business sales now taking place at all of its US locations.
In late March, $4 in Yonkers, New York, that was part of an earlier round of store closures, and it was a grim look into the company's future.
As more Toys R Us stores prepare to close their doors, we visited three different locations in Queens and Manhattan. The stores were in a depressing state - lights were flickering, there were stacks of boxes everywhere, and empty shelves lined the walls.
Here's what it was like: