. . . I suspect we're about to find out if a retailer can be too big to fail. When you put it that way, it's kind of like GM and Chrysler, huh? Toys R Us is a big company by itself, but at the same time, they buy so much from vendors (which is part of how they could get a debt that big, because Toys R Us is probably their main customer) that if Toys R Us falls, a lot of vendors will too. Amazon, Wal-Mart, and their copycats probably don't have near the amount of demand for the same products Toys R Us does. Then again, it might bring back mom and pop toy stores. After Borders shut down, indie bookstores slowly started to make a come back.And they're five Billion. Dollars. In debt. They haven't been paying their vendors half an aircraft carrier's worth.