Toys Я Us Worker: Wall Street Billionaires Should Not Be Making Money By Putting People Out of Work.

Let's not romanticize Toys Я Us. It pressured people to buy expensive toys that they couldn't afford and that their children didn't need. I would expect that most of the toys sold there were media tie-ins, so that children would perform unpaid advertising for other programs which themselves were full of advertising.

In addition, the odd and inexplicable admixture of Cyrillic with the Latin alphabet is annoying — and does "toys ya us" actually mean anything?

This does not, however, excuse the harm done by leveraged buyouts or invalidate the arguments made in the article.