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Remaining Borders Stores to liquidate

TWDeac said:
I liked how Borders had kiosks in the store where you could look stuff up yourself. B&N doesn't have this and you have to interact with someone or stand in line to find out where are book might be.
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depends on your B&N. the one closest to me does have kiosks.
 
PhDeac said:
Yeah, Circuit City made the same complaint about the internet and then it came out how bad they treated employees and didn't give workers raises who eventually jumped to Best Buy.

I heard an NPR story yesterday that said this may be good for local bookstores.

buckets makes an interesting point (kinda). How come there was never a Barnes and Nobles or Borders for porn? Seems like the local neighborhood porn store remains the model.
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Adam & Eve? I think part of the prohibition against a national porn chain are the various local ordinances about location, hours, etc for adult establishments. It could be done, it might be difficult to create a recognizable "big box" image consistent across locations.
 
DeacHoops said:
depends on your B&N. the one closest to me does have kiosks.
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I have been to probably 15-20 different B&N and none of them have had kiosks, that I was able to find at least. Sucks that I don't have one around here that has them. It drives me nuts, not being able to just use a computer for something so easy.
 
TWDeac said:
I have been to probably 15-20 different B&N and none of them have had kiosks, that I was able to find at least. Sucks that I don't have one around here that has them. It drives me nuts, not being able to just use a computer for something so easy.
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well, the newest B&N in charlotte has them. and lots of them, actually. they were superior to the borders ones as well. the search feature just seemed to work better, and it showed you a little map so you knew exactly where to go (can't remember if borders did this, but i don't remember it if it did)
 
DeacHoops said:
well, the newest B&N in charlotte has them. and lots of them, actually. they were superior to the borders ones as well. the search feature just seemed to work better, and it showed you a little map so you knew exactly where to go (can't remember if borders did this, but i don't remember it if it did)
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Awesome. I hope they are going to bring these to all of the stores.
 
TWDeac said:
I never had a problem with them and they were much better than nothing.
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i mean better than nothing yes, but they were very slow and it wasn't always clear where in the store I could find the book i was looking for.
 
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