It's Tuesday, September 19th.

Welcome to Market Foolery.

I'm Cicell joining me in studio today from Hidden Gems, Abby Mallin.

Thanks for being here.

Thanks for having me.

We're going to dip into the full mail bag.

We've got, we got a bunch of things to get to, which is always good considering that it's not

earning season.

But we've got to start with the big news of the day, and that is the fact that Toys R Us, which is the largest toy chain in the United States

has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and we were talking about this earlier this morning.

Not a surprise.

Not a surprise and the slightest.

This is about more than 20 retailers have already filed for bankruptcy since the beginning of 2017 and I think this is just

Sort of a sign of the times honestly

I'm wondering if I mean it is a sign of the times and I get that although part of me

and maybe it's my age here but part of me is is a little amazed slash

impressed that Toys R Us has made it this long, that they have

survived to this point for this long.

Yeah, I would agree with that.

I mean, I think previously they were sort of thought of as this category killer because they had a huge specialty store with low prices and they sort of squeezed those independent shops. But now we're seeing the flip side to like the Amazon's, the Walmarts, the targets,

are sort of squeezing Toys R Us.

And I think they also had a pretty wide selection with a depth of product, so they were thought of as like the last place

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