Posted on 02/02/2015 11:58:58 PM PST by csvset
Amazon and Kindle. Us old folks with our Kindles are making books obsolete.
It’s going to hit more than just bookstores. I wonder if empty shelves in Venezuela ever entered this idiots mind or starvation in Zimbabwe. Two other places that once were relatively prosperous compared to their current predicament.
Bookstores are not well known for fabulous profit margins in the first place. It doesn't take much to kill one, and the industry is just barely hanging on. Probably the store should re-cast itself as something other than a bookseller. But running a small business in San Francisco is a special kind of hell anyway, so why not provide a lesson for the ignorant as a final service?
Actually I wonder if the Borderlands owner is aware of what happened to the Kepler's bookstore in Menlo Park? Wealthy people in the local community crowd-fund it to keep it open. It's like a freaking church of the literary, except of course they're all communists. Considering how wealthy the neighborhood up-hill from the bookstore is, I bet Borderlands could do the same...
That’s OK San Francisco can then raise then minimum wage to $25/hr.
Raising the minimum wage didn’t cause the bookstore to go out of business, it was global warming.
“I can’t increase the prices of my products because books, unlike many other things, have a price printed on them,”
This sounds like they were selling their books at list price. Most book stores discount their books.
Only hard to believe if you live in San Francisco. Anyplace else, it would be a no-brainer.
The left doesn’t care. In their “mind” businesses exploit their workers and deserve this.
He may be ignorant but he feels sad...And in liberalism that’s the most important thing...... your feelings!
Independent bookstores fail for a number of reasons, I would imagine. Too many esoteric books and the usually unbelievable arrogance of the minimum wage workers. If I get any nonsense from an intellectual giant working in the Tarot Card section, I boycott the store.
There's the rub right there.
He didn't think. And still doesn't.
“It’s an unexpected plot twist for loyal customers”
Who are all gullible idiots.
Yeah, Eddie, it's always sad to realize you're a dumbazz, isn't it.
“You know, I voted for the measure as well, the minimum wage measure,” customer Edward Vallecillo said. “It’s not something that I thought would affect certain specific small businesses. I feel sad.”
Yet he will never feel like the moron he actually is. He’ll never recognize the stupidity. This bullet-proof self satisfaction is truly amazing.
The definition of Low Information Voter.
Very precarious position with only $3000 in profits a year. If it was not minimum wage increase it could have been 100 other things.
The point is i dont like political BS no matter what side of an issue.
Easily solved. You just have the city pay the bookstore to stay in business and increase taxes to cover it. The Rich need to pay their fair share. Occupy the bookstore! Pound some drums!! OCCUPY THE BOOKSTORE!!!
Perhaps the bookstore manager could write the mayor and get an exemption?
Time to raise the minimum wage, to cover these poor people who got fired because of CORPORATE GREED!
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