Originally Posted by Worldwalker
The bottom line is that Borders -- even though I preferred them to B&N -- has never given me a good reason to travel to their stores, and never opened stores in locations that were convenient for me, even when I lived in the largest city in my state. (yeah, they had a store half an hour north, and a store half an hour south, but only B&N had a store there) I don't (just) shop at Amazon because of the clean bathrooms and lack of a requirement for pants. I shop at Amazon because it's right here and for me to go to Borders, I need to schedule at least two hours for the trip (realistically, 45 minutes each way due to traffic, and general travel friction seems to take up extra time). Why should I go to Borders (two hours of time, a gallon or more of gas, and the risk of going too close to Harbor Freight and being sucked in) when I can just buy the book I want without moving from this chair? Borders never gave me a good answer to that.
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