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Old 01-05-2012, 12:22 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey View Post
I still think the death of bookstores is over-exaggerated. With Waldenbooks, Borders and B.Dalton gone, who's left to sell books besides B&N?

That said, I would expect rather than the enormous size of B&N stores, we would see a reduction in size to more stores of the size that Waldenbooks and the like were before. I can't imagine why we would have stores the size of a Sears selling books...not enough to prosper, anyway.
Nobody is left. That's kind of the point. Not an exageration.

You're probably right about the smaller stores doing well, unfortunately I haven't seen many instances of a company successfully remaking itself in that way fast enough to avoid bankruptcy. Look at Borders, Blockbuster. The only one I can think of is Woolworth (now Footlocker).
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