Barnes & Noble is about to go under brehs

[Memorial Stadium Piru]

I still buy physical books

I just bought Daymond John's book & Ray Kroc's biography from there on Friday

 

[Pazzy]

It's really sad and we are doing it to ourselves.
Laziness combined with Social Networking means we don't have to go outside unless it's to go to work.
What happens when online sales plummet because nobody has jobs at retail stores that provided income to them. There's not enough "high skill" jobs for everybody. There has to be "low skill" tier in order for a society to not collapse.

How many people actually have career jobs that you can retire from. A very low percentage I would imagine. The poor will grow poorer.

You know one thing that I also notice. Folks are more or less living in their bubble and an echo chamber. Before folks were forced to go outside, get out their comfort zone to interact with different people. Now you see these folks completely lost and unaware of how ignorant they are running all over social media thinking they're smart, surrounding themselves with people who are just like them where they don't get challenged. It's just sad. These are the same folks who were all crying and in shock with hillary Clinton lost the election because they thought almost everyone shared the same view as them and a majority of their Facebook or Twitter friends.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

That is something totally different... What you’re seeing today is the phasing out of industries due to technology resulting in job displacement.

The Great Depression was an economic crash due to the stock market plummeting and causing 10000 banks to close.

The former is a societal shift... the Industrial Age finally transforming into the digital age

the latter is a complete economic meltdown where the equivalent today would be 40 to 50 million people unemployed... with no social programs to help subsidize the cost of living

but fear not... we’ll have our own version of the depression soon enough

Yo the amount of hyperbole in this is

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

I agree, but I've recently gotten back into reading and I've honestl
y done it due to the ability to read off my phone. The idea of going to a library to get a book these days is just not realistic to me anymore.......plus when I ride to work I can put on the read aloud and it plays back to me

I didn't say all ... some ... I'm an engineer and when I'm going through codes and reference material I need the physical... codes and things we mark up, put notes, stickies and etc.. . when I'm reading stuff like game informer, PS4, entertainment weekly my kindle app is fine..

My 16 year old prefers the physical copy she doesn't use the tablet.. I bought my kids tablets for books and they prefer physical..

 

[Mike Nasty]

This is what happens when your store stays packed with people not buying anything other than Starbucks.

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

Yo the amount of hyperbole in this is

i think the way it reads is somewhat confusing but i honestly don't think he's that far off. the only thing i would disagree with is that i think governments are actually doing a decent job of trying to get ahead of the economic dislocation etc that will take place when automation becomes more widely implemented. that's not to say that the response will be sufficient - but the fact that local governments here in the US as well as in other countries are beginning to test the idea of basic income is a good sign.

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Yo the amount of hyperbole in this is

Care to elaborate?

 

[NoChillJones]

I didn't say all ... some ... I'm an engineer and when I'm going through codes and reference material I need the physical... codes and things we mark up, put notes, stickies and etc.. . when I'm reading stuff like game informer, PS4, entertainment weekly my kindle app is fine..

My 16 year old prefers the physical copy she doesn't use the tablet.. I bought my kids tablets for books and they prefer physical..

To each its own, just giving my preference. My lifestyle I don't have time to carry a book around all the time........on my phone I can just put on blue tooth and listen/read all day.......going through books daily........it works for me.....but I feel you as well....different people process things differently

 

[Gold]

There was a big ass Barnes and Noble in Manhattan not far from where I used to work. I remember picking up a book. Going upstairs to grab something to eat and sitting there reading.

So peaceful, i miss those days

 

[BlackBall]

All that’s goIng to be left of brick and mortar is some clothing, bars and food/restaurants. Sad

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Yo the amount of hyperbole in this is

Hyperbole? Says the one comparing the Great Depression to the phasing out of some brick and mortar retail businesses...



You say hyperbole? But compare what’s going on today to an event that is almost impossible to occur in today’s economic climate...



Y’all gon learn tho...

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

This is what happens when your store stays packed with people not buying anything other than Starbucks.

that's what I think hurt B&N ... they are not the library if you wanna hang and chill and read go there.... when they started letting you hang and read for free .. I was like that's the end soon..

now if they charged a monthly or yearly fee ( ala prime books) and you can visit and read all day and maybe even borrow ...

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

JUST brought some Barnes and nobles stock

Thanks coli

I was thinking the sammme thing

 

[staticshock]

fukk them nikkas. I must have applied to there 40 Times in the past 10 years.

Hope them fakkits go bankrupt

 

[NYSTATEOFMIND]

Dont cry barnes and nobles fans...just go to Amazon Books when Besos Luthor opens one in ya town