A family was shopping, and one of the children, a girl of about eight or nine, had been given one of the books she would be getting with the family purchase. She dropped to the floor in a cross-legged second and dove in, immediately engrossed in whatever story she held while the others browsed.
Jeff Bezos will never be able to sell that, no matter what technology comes under his company's command.
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the local news has been full of people complaining about how "this store sells what no other store did, why is it going away?" I don't know if there's some other issue involved (some chains that went bust did because of bad management in the upper levels) or if the people who thought it was so great didn't shop there enough.
I admit: I always felt they devoted a bit too much to the "and entertainment" side of things for my taste. We still have a Books a Million (for as long as THAT chain lasts....)
And I have to admit that I would not have thought they would still be one of the ones standing...
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