[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Nope. Very poor merchandising.

I would go in looking for music or books and find the same tchotchke that you could buy at the local Mega-Store but at a major markup.

It filled half the store and they shrank the book section to stuff more it in.

They would rarely have any of the titles in paperback even though I knew they were available.

In the end they didn't know what they wanted to be.

[Dave W]

That's because they couldn't move the books on the shelves and they had to start selling other things. This is no different than what happened to Borders and B&N, which is hardly hanging on.

B&N has replaced a significant amount of shelf space with toys because no one can sell books retail anymore.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Very poor merchandising indeed.