Price Match Policy

Their policy definitely has its idiosyncrasies, especially when it comes to your online returns. I can only think that they let Geoffrey the Giraffe come up with that plan. The majority of items come with a day return policy. What if the Toy is Opened or Used?

The Simpsons didn’t actually predict the closure of Toys R Us 14 years ago. Speculation that the FOX series had added the closure of the toy retailer to its ever-growing list of spookily accurate.

From a tomb dating — BCE, Kerameikos Archaeological Museum, Athens Most children have been said to play with whatever they can find, such as sticks and rocks. Toys and games have been unearthed from the sites of ancient civilizations. They have been written about in some of the oldest literature. Toys excavated from the Indus valley civilization — BCE include small carts, whistles shaped like birds, and toy monkeys which could slide down a string. Thousands of years ago, Egyptian children played with dolls that had wigs and movable limbs which were made from stone, pottery, and wood.

When Greek children, especially girls, came of age it was customary for them to sacrifice the toys of their childhood to the gods. On the eve of their wedding, young girls around fourteen would offer their dolls in a temple as a rite of passage into adulthood. The game consisted of a square divided into 14 parts, and the aim was to create different shapes from these pieces. In Iran “puzzle-locks” were made as early as the 17th century AD.

Enlightenment era Toys became more widespread with the changing attitudes towards children engendered by the Enlightenment.