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Our local one (Plattsburgh, NY) is now a furniture store. The location was a secondary anchor for the only shopping mall in this small city.
My wife and I live an hour away from Plattsburgh, so a trip to Borders was an "event" for us -- drive out, have a nice dinner, browse books for a few hours, maybe catch a movie, etc. And while Borders always got the majority of our spending, there were lots of other merchants who benefitted.
Since Borders has closed, we've gone from 1-2 such trips a month to zero -- we now take the 2-hour trek to Burlington when we want our "book day out," but we can only swing those once every 2-3 months with our work schedule. I do a LOT more online shopping and browsing now.
Has anyone else's shopping patterns changed like that? Or is it because we're in such a rural area.
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