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Originally Posted by elizilla
This morning I had an email from Borders announcing they are going completely out of business. I had heard this here, but hoped it was wrong. But hearing it from Borders makes it official.  They are the local bookstore here. I have shopped there since there was only one store. B&N didn't arrive here until they were already a huge chain. Losing Borders will be another blow to the area economy.
The "going out of business sale" email seems to say it will be business as usual. 40% off "original price" as if anything sells for original price anywhere, as if that isn't what they have long been in the habit of offering in their sales. It starts today but I tell ya I'm certainly not going to brave the Art Fair crowds to get down there to their main store. |
It is kind of the same thing here. For the most part, where I've always lived, we had small book stores at malls, like Waldenbooks and B Dalton, but they largely closed up 10-15 years ago, and the only bigger stores around were Borders( with B&N coming in and building nearby existing borders stores in more recent history). Where I used to live growing up, there aren't any B&N for about 15 miles, and where my parents are they have to go 25 miles. Where my apartment is, it is a fairly well populated area and it is 3 miles to the closest Borders, but 10 to the nearest B&N, and based on traffic and average speed limits, it would be roughly a half hour to drive there. Borders had more stores that serviced a far greater portion of the St Louis area than B&N.