Posted on 04/19/2009 11:24:30 PM PDT by FromLori
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Krispy Kreme closed a lot of California stores over the past few years. I prefer the little mom and pop donut shops anyway :-)
Krispy Kreme closed a lot of California stores over the past few years. I prefer the little mom and pop donut shops anyway :-)
BN is not going anywhere. They saw the future and made the necessary (unlike Borders) moves to survive if not even thrive. What is to be determined is how and what will exist of the brick and mortar book stores. You will probably see BN do some test models by the end of the year in certain regions to see what the results are. The big stores will defiantly shrink and be reduced in number. The two scenarios I see are.
1. Used book stores will survive and thrive with the Amazon Marketplace model and something similar to the inter library trading system.
2. New book stores will shrink is size. Consumer comes in and sits down at a console to preview books on a touchscreen computer. Consumer sends their choices to a “Cart” and then goes up to the cashier to do three things. A. pickup their just printed “read-once-throw-away” cheap paperback (printed off a production printer in the back of the store). B. Receive the high quality last for generations hard back copy. C. Receive the “book” to their eReader device or thumb drive. You could even see kiosk in malls and grocery stores that you can get the book via eReader or thumb drive just like DVDs.
I’m in NC where Krispy Kreme is a mom and pop store.
LOL. Boy isn't that the truth!! ;-D
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