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I agree that Border's probably can't pull it out. They've never had good management at the top level. They went through how many CEOs in the past five years? I love their stores, and their store staff has always been far more pleasant than B&N's, where they seem to be evaluated solely on how well they hard-sell their $25 "discount" cards, so I'm going to miss them a lot when they finally curl up and die. I travel 45 minutes to my closest Border's. The only local store is a Books-A-Million, which is terrible. They don't have a good selection of discount/remaindered books, their SF and fantasy sections border on the microscopic (probably pushed out by their "Christian literature" section which seems to be taking up about half the store), and I've been in more pleasant 7-Elevens. But Border's has been flopping around like a headless chicken for years now. They never seemed to figure out what they were supposed to be doing with their website, either ... except that buying from the site cost me more than buying from their B&M stores (coupons helped, admittedly) so if I was going to buy something online and wait for it, I'd buy from Amazon for the discount and/or free shipping.
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