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Originally Posted by soondai
Everyone always busts B&N's chops for all their "blunders."
I think they are in an untenable position. They cannot match Amazon's prices in physical stores in the end. Sure it's fun to browse and graze, but as they trim away all the stuff that doesn't move quickly, it isn't much different that scrolling down the Amazon best seller list anyway.
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That can be said of just about every Brick and Mortar business when it comes to competing with Amazon.
I think B&N has adapted OK in their B&M stores. I enjoy taking my kids there. They expanded too large with too many stores. But that business appears to be recovering.
What Microsoft was trying to do is anybody's guess. It's like they bought in and then immediately lost interest. I thought they would integrate Nook into their ecosystem but that never happened.