Barnes & Noble is about to go under brehs

[Reece]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cn...e-cuts-staff-after-dismal-holiday-season.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cn...-cuts-expects-40-million-in-cost-savings.html

They fired almost all their full time workers on Monday. This was one of the best places I worked at. Got me through my college years They fired damn near everybody. Amazon our here slaughtering retail stores

 

[CobaltBlue]

I used to really dig going into Barnes and Noble. Be in there for hours sharpening my blade.

 

[Pazzy]

That's my favorite store. Always feel at total peace and serenity in that place surrounded by all those books. Amazon probably gonna buy it out like what they did to whole foods.

 

[OnFleekTing]

amazon gonna rule the world once they get in the hotel business

 

[VladTheImpaler]

They will keep several locations. The one I go to stays packed with buying customers....

love the place brehs

 

[morris]

I honestly thought it was already owned by someone else. Borders went under years ago. For some reason I thought this already happened.

 

[Tupac in a Business Suit]

Outdated business model combined with the failure to adapt to the digital space in a timely manner.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.

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

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.

 

[Jean toomer]

Outdated business model combined with the failure to adapt to the digital space in a timely manner.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.

Agreed. They also pushed in all the chips on the table for that piece a shyt NOOK.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Most these companies are run by short sighted executives. Many of these companies were in positions where if they simply paid attention to where markets were going and innovation we wouldnt be seeing these types of things.

Its not like years ago these companies tried new things and failed, most of these companies are still using their initial business model they just have more locations.

 

[The Message]

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.

word like blockbuster. i heard they had the opportunity to purchase netflix before it became the monster that it is.

and they passed...

adapt or die off

 

[Tupac in a Business Suit]

word like blockbuster. i heard they had the opportunity to purchase netflix before it became the monster that it is.

and they passed...

adapt or die off

That's everything in life essentially. Change and adapt with the times or perish and be left in the dust. God bless the Coli.com

It will be interesting to read the case studies on Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google when they fail.

This is why leadership is everything in life. They can't put that in a Textbook. People are just born with that tool.

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

As much as I love physical books, when you traveling and wanna read something there's no better choice than your phone or a tablet.

Not to mention websites where you can get books.....let me stop ......it's hard to picture myself getting up in 30 degree weather in NY and going down to B&N for some books, shyt just ain't the wave to me anymore. With that said it sucks those people lost their jobs so early into 2018.

 

[Reece]

That's my favorite store. Always feel at total peace and serenity in that place surrounded by all those books. Amazon probably gonna buy it out like what they did to whole foods.

Was even better working there

The people were mad cool

I left 3 years ago and some of the cats I knew are still there and like 70% of them got fired. Most were older people retired trying to supplement their fixed income

 

[NoChillJones]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cn...e-cuts-staff-after-dismal-holiday-season.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cn...-cuts-expects-40-million-in-cost-savings.html

They fired almost all their full time workers on Monday. This was one of the best places I worked at. Got me through my college years They fired damn near everybody. Amazon our here slaughtering retail stores

The age of social media and google.........people can get any and everything on they phones.....the art of buying a book and reading is ancient as fukk