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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Then why are they losing money? Even a busy store needs to make enough profit to be profitable. The bigger the store, the more operating cost you have to recover before even thinking about profit... Books have a much bigger profit margin than toys and trinkets, especially when B&N can buy them at wholesale discount.
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Individual stores can be profitable even if the company as a whole isn't. I haven't been in a B&N for a while, but I know what he means about a certain feel. The Toys RUs near me definitely had that feel shortly before they closed up.