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Originally Posted by Wearever
Well there is a reason why B&N is the last book store left in most retail places or malls. They put all the other book stores out of business. Dalton, Boarders, just to name a couple.
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To be fair here, B. Dalton was owned by Barnes and Noble in the same way Waldenbooks was owned by Borders. Barnes and Noble didn't so much put B. Dalton out of business as they switched from smaller stores to larger ones.
Borders put their own selves out of business. Remember how they directed on-line business to Amazon?
I agree with the rest of your post. Barnes and Noble
and Borders definitely put the hurt on mom and pop bookstores. I miss the days of B. Dalton, Waldenbooks and Crown Books. But lumping all their sad fates at the feet of B&N probably isn't fair. If they were that skilled, they'd be doing better now.