Posted on 08/28/2015 4:39:39 AM PDT by lowbridge
It’s the final chapter for Barnes & Noble in Queens, as the bookstore is shuttering its remaining location in The Bay Terrace shopping center in Bayside.
A representative from Barnes & Noble declined to reveal the official closing date or who is expected to take over the property but did admit that the property owner declined to renew the company’s lease.
“With Bayside, when our lease came back up for renewal the property owner notified us that they chose a tenant who was willing to pay rents far in excess of what we were willing to pay,” said David Deason, vice president of Barnes & Noble development. “The Queens community is extremely important to us and as a result we are aggressively looking at new locations and expect to have a new store there in the future.”
(Excerpt) Read more at queenscourier.com ...
Golly gee, are they afraid of the 100% discount days about to kick off?
I imagine there’s hardly anyone left in parts of NYC who has any interest in reading at all.
Amazon is putting B&N out of business, just like it did Borders. Creative destruction at work.
If there was one thread I thought I might not see Russian propaganda, it was this one. lol
I feel sorry for B&N...and lots of other brick and mortar retailers for that matter. People go there, browse, and then order what they want online. The retailers get stuck with the salaries and overhead.
Queens? At one time a great borough in the city of NY. Wouldn’t be surprised if many in the population can’t read or speak English.
JMHO, there are topics I'll read about and books I'll discover in a bookstore that wouldn't be things I'd find online or in the library. When we lose bookstores, we lose much of our independent thinking and intellectual self-improvement. JMHO
Amazon surely contributed, but didn’t Borders have some super aggressive expansion campaign that failed leaving them leverage far beyond what their dwindling sales could ever cover?
That’s because they’re too busy reading their Facebook & tweets!
When my husband lost his job, I got a job at B&N. Nice enough work place but they turned it into a damned toy store. That’s all we sold. The bookshelves disappeared to be replaced by Frozen dolls.
One of the secondary definitions of "short-sighted" in the dictionary is "retail landlord." :)
We are fast becoming a paperless society. You can buy just about any book online and read it on you tablet. Brick and Mortar stores are fading for certain items. Books are one of those.
I hope they don’t close the one in Ferguson
A bookstore attracts literate people who have disposable income. They aren’t likely to go to the neighboring grocery store and crap on the restroom floor because that is what illiterate people do in the old country. They aren’t as likely to shoplift, or break displays because they are stupid and like to break things. They aren’t likely to steal the grocery cart to replace the other grocery cart they stole last month but they broke it and left it on its side on the sidewalk.
Often times I'll take my mom out for breakfast on a Saturday morning. We head to a real nice pancake house about 12 miles away, that serves a more affluent community.
On the way home, I'll drive through a certain subdivision, where the houses are on large lots, park like landscaping, many of the homes backing to ponds.
When we exit the subdivision, there is a shopping center on that road that has a B&N. Often times I'll stop their and browse. I'll find a book I want, grab 1/2 dozen magazines, go to the café area, grab a coffee or juice, enjoy the smells, the quiet and REEEELAAAX, flipping through the pages of the mags.
I usually buy 2 or 3 of the mags and the book and I've enjoyed an hour to hour and a half of quiet, relaxful time.
The time spent relaxing and browsing is more than enough to make up the cost I might have saved buying from elsewhere.
AGREED!!!!!!!
Barnes and Noble must be sensing a change in the customer base.
Reluctantly, as another has said, the public’s participation in reading might be one of the culprits.
Maybe, since they outright supported the queer mulatto, they could offer reading material in Mohammedan.
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