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Originally Posted by toddos
If anything, the number of people talking about how busy their stores are is an encouraging sign for B&N. It means people are still shopping their stores rather than buying from Amazon.
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I hear ya.
What I don't get is the timing: cutting staff hours during peak shopping season isn't par for the course, especially when the cuts impact busy stores.
And people buying at B&N doesn't mean they're buying books. Some of the reports say they're selling everything but books... That can lead to massive returns, messing up the publishers who are already dealing with the november collision of event titles...
That kind of site is for venting by the disgruntled so caution is needed, but I see red flags and parallels with Borders. At a minimum it sounds like some stores (maybe the ones already slated for closing) are being triaged.
There's more to the story...
