We had one book store here in Alamogordo, the entire chain went *poof*. According to a former co-worker who was a buyer for the chain, the owner was quite the idiot who killed it in such a way that invited a veritable tsunami of lawsuits for destroying shareholder value.
We had a used book store owned by a literal cat lady: there were probably a half dozen felines patrolling the space. I don't know when it closed, but within six months of the first store closing, it was gone.
And now there's the Friends of the Library outlet and thrift stores, and that's it. There's some good crawling to be done in Phoenix and Tucson, but Walmart, Amazon, and the economy for many years has pretty much killed all of the small ones in the area.
The second instance reminds me of Nicholas Hoare Books' Ottawa outlet. They were on Sussex across from the Peacekeepers' Monument and the National Gallery. They had a nice-looking faux fireplace in one corner. And a cat in residence. Just the one.
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Date: 2019-09-01 03:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-01 04:46 pm (UTC)We had a used book store owned by a literal cat lady: there were probably a half dozen felines patrolling the space. I don't know when it closed, but within six months of the first store closing, it was gone.
And now there's the Friends of the Library outlet and thrift stores, and that's it. There's some good crawling to be done in Phoenix and Tucson, but Walmart, Amazon, and the economy for many years has pretty much killed all of the small ones in the area.
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Date: 2019-09-01 08:43 pm (UTC)