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IMO its there own fault. Seemed everytime I would go into my local Borders the whole place was rearranged. hard to go in, get what you want and get out when you have to keep looking around for stuff.
I have a friend that worked for them and asked Him about it. He said the upper management kept making the stores do that when the local managers would get alot of complaints about it. Looks to me the upper managment did'nt care what the customers wanted.
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I suppose it was inevitable, but I'm still a little unhappy about it.
I noticed that. It shouldn't have any affect on my area, since we don't have any Borders nearby (it's all BAM and B&N).
-Skeld
Well, shucks.
That pretty much means no "new" bookstores around here. We've got a B&N about 45 miles south, but that's about it within 50 miles.
Have/had a Borders about 15 miles away (in the town I work in, in the plaza right next to my office), and another about 25 miles north.
I won't lie, I buy more/most of my stuff from Amazon, but still threw money at Borders when I went in to browse. Books have a fantastically appropriate price-point for impulse purchases.
I highly doubt anyone will be stepping up to buy the lease at one of my "local" places.
Seems kinda strange, a college town without a bookstore.
I actually stepped into a borders this past weekend for the first time in who know's how long and it was to visit a friend who works there, not to buy a book. My kindle makes that almost pointless, I can get my books instantly anywhere, and though I prefer a real book in my hands the convenience is hard to match. Though I may hop into the local borders when these liquidation sales start. They had a bunch of copies of dance with dragons at the local store, and I definately want a physical copy of that eventually.
Very sad. Borders always had a great selection and much better coffee than either B&N or Books-a-Million. But their late, half-assed entry into the internet and e-books market doomed them.
IMO its there own fault. Seemed everytime I would go into my local Borders the whole place was rearranged. hard to go in, get what you want and get out when you have to keep looking around for stuff.
I have a friend that worked for them and asked Him about it. He said the upper management kept making the stores do that when the local managers would get alot of complaints about it. Looks to me the upper managment did'nt care what the customers wanted.
Yeah, that's another thing. There really has been a 'rearranging chairs on the Titanic' feel to the place these last few years.
Well, the sales have started. According to their website, everything in their stores is up to 40% off. Might have to take a run over and see if they've any stuff I want.
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Well, the sales have started. According to their website, everything in their stores is up to 40% off. Might have to take a run over and see if they've any stuff I want.
The key part of that phrase is "up to" 40% off. If your store is anything like the one around the corner from me, most everything is 10-20% off with a few things (mostly the bargain books) going at 40%.
The key part of that phrase is "up to" 40% off. If your store is anything like the one around the corner from me, most everything is 10-20% off with a few things (mostly the bargain books) going at 40%.
Yeah, RPG stuff has only been 10% off, but supposedly, more price cuts happened today...
Well, the sales have started. According to their website, everything in their stores is up to 40% off. Might have to take a run over and see if they've any stuff I want.
Of course they sent out coupon deals that were some ridiculous percent off everything every week anyway.
Just like Sun Coast, none of the big cuts will come in for the good stuff until right at the write and maybe not even then - DVDs in the last week of the sale at Sun Coast were still more expensive than the same at Best Buy.