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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
It is not so much the tarnishing of name as the size of the stores. The big B&N are not suitable to Amazon's idea of a brick and mortar. It might be a different story if B&N actually owned the stores instead of leasing them.
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They used to own a few of their own but they sold them off years ago.
They were worth more to developers and other retailers than they were worth as bookstores.
Like this one:
https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle...ls-for-7m.html
Edit:This one in Boston took a while to sell but brought in a good chunk of change:
https://www.bisnow.com/boston/news/m...sold-75876#ath