I'm really selective about the toys I buy and bring into the house, which I'm now so very glad about.  It's truly hard to "stop" other people from buying you toys (made in China) but I have a pretty strict "no toys"
policy that anyone who'd buy toys for my daughter knows.  I'm definitely not anti-toy of course - but I'm anti plastic and potentially dangerous crap all over my house.

Hell's armpit is probably the best description of that hell hole of a toy store I've heard in a long time.  I went in there once and that?  Was enough.
