Barnes & Noble is about to go under brehs

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Outdated business model combined with the failure to adapt to the digital space in a timely manner. I love reading books and will never forget the simple joys of going in there for Textbooks for college because our bookstore was too expensive for us broke undergrads.

I can't tell you how many books and magazines I would spend hours reading at Borders, who at one point in time was their main competitor.

If I were B&N, I would have purchased a small player in the digital content sharing platform like Scribd.

Outdated is probably too strong of a word... it probably depends on what you’re selling more than anything

 

[aXiom]

Innovate or die. If you want sentiment, get into the museum business.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

People are really going to miss physical stores once they dwindle down to only being able to survive in large cities.

Brick and Mortar ain’t dead yet

 

[⠝⠕⠏⠑]

This makes me sad. On some Saturdays I go and play chess with the elderly there sometimes. It's like a gathering of old men in there.

They be showing out too. Swear I had somebody beat me in like 7 moves one time and I consider myself pretty good.
Bookstores are some of my favorite haunts.

My parents are avid readers so we would spend hours and hours at the library when I was young so of course bookstores are great.
Just the smell of books gets me there. A quiet little nook and cranny with a good book and some tea...speaking of which I have enough books to open my own bookstore.

I've sold thousands at flea markets over the years and still have an entire storage unit with containers FILLED with books at home. Heaven is a huge never ending library filled with good books, people, animals and good music.

I'll miss Barnes and Noble.

 

[re'up]

I go in there twice a month maybe and buy book, but the business model has been outdated for a decade plus....It would be sad to see it go, on some level, there are hardly any bookstores here anymore.

 

[SAINT]

climate? You mean 1 fukking company. Are you a social darwinist? Monopolies are DANGEROUS to society. Extremely dangerous.

You completely misinterpreted what I meant by that last statement lol

 

[David_TheMan]

I dont fukk with Barnes and Noble or Books A Million.
They have an outdated business model

 

[Buck Seventy]

I love going to Barnes and Noble. I'm one of those people that still hasn't brought a Kindle, but I was thinking about getting one today. I have a comixology account but I still buy the actual comic book. I guess I am one of those laggards when it came to buying digital books.

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

Not surprised. I love bookstores, but I don't love buying physical books.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

I dont fukk with Barnes and Noble or Books A Million.
They have an outdated business model

Y’all throwing the term outdated around like it’s nothing.. Can you elaborate on how it’s an outdated business model?

 

[Reece]

People are really going to miss physical stores once they dwindle down to only being able to survive in large cities. The race to the bottom is only going to hurt society long term. All these jobs gone only to be replaced by robots. And the jobs Amazon can't automate they drive the eagles down to peanuts and work the shyt out of you for no long term benefits.

People won’t get it until it’s too late

There’s a proportional relationship to cheap rock bottom prices and wages. nikkas are going to trade the entire retail industry for one online company.

 

[Easy-E]

Amazon our here slaughtering retail stores

And we think we doing something selling bodysuits and shirts with "Unapologictically Black"

I'm not trying to shyt on my people, but, we need to open our eyes. Capitalism is a sharks game and we guppies.

Even Walmart feeling the crunch and we think opening grocery stores gonna save us.

 

[David_TheMan]

Y’all throwing the term outdated around like it’s nothing.. Can you elaborate on how it’s an outdated business model?

paper media is dying, newspapers, monthly mags, its dying. It takes up space in warehouses and store shelves and that costs money, the paper its made of and the ink you print cost money.
Digital books are far better in that you can host them for sale for less than it takes to print stock and deliver and then stock at store locations.
Amazon figured this out when they almost went out of business after the 90s dot com bubble burst, this is why they used their logistic system for book storage and delivery and were able to transition that asset to their main selling feature to other stores and survive and grow.

Printed book is a niche market now, and all the big book retailers are going to go out of business, its not a matter of if but when.

And we think we doing something selling bodysuits and shirts with "Unapologictically Black"

I'm not trying to shyt on my people, but, we need to open our eyes. Capitalism is a sharks game and we guppies.

Even Walmart feeling the crunch and we think opening grocery stores gonna save us.

Its a shark game for producers, its great for buyers, that competition generates low prices for goods, and higher standards of living on less money.
Instead of being scared of it, embrace the competition, its literally a rising tide economically.

 

[Mac Brown]

B & N is my favorite getaway spot............. If they close the one on West Gray I may legit be sad

 

[CashmereThoughts]

i know every generation goes through these things but it is just staggering the ways in which so many industries have been altered/destroyed in the last 20 years.

If it’s that or free 2 shipping and dirt cheap prices on damn year anything than off with their head