“I hope Barnes & Noble doesn’t fold. I would hate to see the demise of bookstores.”
I agree, although I really believe management wants them to. I go to the one near my house every week, and I can’t believe the number of times I have heard one of their people say to a customer, “sorry, that is only available on line.”
It’s almost as if they are really saying, ‘stop wasting your time time coming here and only shop online.’
Here in Boston its the last big store around.
Really, its just about the only place I learn about new releases. It would just be awful to loose that place.
That and they undercut their brick and mortar sales by advertising larger discounts for online purchases than the stores. Let’s say, “Only a chump buys at our store locations.”