But Toys “R” Us went belly up earlier this year, and with it went the only toy catalogue I’d ever found in my mailbox. In July, the online behemoth announced that it would take the decidedly retro step of printing its own toy catalogue. On Facebook, a mom in New Jersey lamented, “I have not received Amazon’s highly coveted toy catalogue. The toy catalogue feels like a small way of recapturing the wonder of a time before gifts could be bought with one click. In the end, I found my printed 2018 holiday toy catalogue — on the Internet, of course.

Source: Washington Post December 11, 2018 14:01 UTC