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Originally Posted by bashfulbanshee
To be honest, I'm not very sympathetic towards them either. As a compulsive reader and a Canadian, Chapters just doesn't provide a whole lot of value to me. The local store has a pretty limited selection, but it has a sprawling size. 50% of the space is dedicated to junk bargain books (e.g. another book about Princess D.) or toys/housewares. Also, everything is cheaper on Amazon.
The overall combo of (1) limited selection (2) not fun to browse in (for me), (3) and relatively more expensive than other options makes it a no go for me. So instead I have Amazon, specialty indie book stores, and used book stores. There's a nicer couple of stores in downtown Vancouver, but I never buy from them either when the used bookstore with a crazy SF selection is just across the street  |
I'm with you there. It's the McDonald's of bookstores. Nothing I have any interest in.
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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
Actually, Indigo is much better liked than you'd ever suspect from the lunatic ravings of many posters of the Globe and Mail comments section. You'll also notice multiple postings by the same folks frothing at the mouth about partisan (usually ultra-right wing) politics that has nothing to do with the issue at hand and rarely reflects anything in the article.
This same pointless poison is targeted at any Canadian big business and the arts community at large with utterly numbing consistency within the narrow-minded universe of Globe and Mail commenters. (There are some comments worth reading that actually stick intelligently to a given issue, but you do have to wade through a lot of creepy stuff.) The trade-off is the newspaper itself is worth reading.
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They seem like pretty reasonable comments to me.