Posted on 02/03/2015 5:47:16 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
Can bookstores in Seattle be next?
I am sure the voters and city father/mothers in San Francisco will tell you that this is just another isolated incident. Just another under capitalized business going under.
The Rats’ idea of creating good paying jobs is to simply mandate the pay to the point where the employer can no longer afford to stay in business.
minimum is supposed to be minimum. You are not supposed to be able to support a family on minimum wage, it is a starter job for a teenager with a car.
The big question is what will the owners of that bookstore do next. Since the business climate in California is awful, will they leave the state to do business elsewhere, or will they get out of business altogether?
Truthfully, the independent bookstores, and even the chain stores, business climate has been moribund for a very long time.
Yeah, but if he had a job he'd be making $15/hour!
Downloadable books that read to you are the future especially for people on the go working.
Physical books, will eventually go the way of the buggy whip.
Amazon with the cheaper down loaded books are going to have more business. Now if there were a way to shift them to a memory drive, so you can keep/save the books it would be a better deal for those of us who like to collect series.
My old book series I read as a teen are in a tub in the attic. Edgar Rice Burroughs was my favorite author back then. As I got older MM AUEL who creates whole worlds has held a big spot on my book shelf.
They could move their inventory to somewhere that is less expensive to live. Then they can create a web site to sell their books.
There is still a market for used and hard to find books.
Going on line will allow the owner to make a living without the bother of having employees, a store, and all the expenses that go with it.
(Before the internet I ran a used book store out of my garage. Back then you could take an ad out in magazine listing your specialty. It was all done by mail. For me it was a way to earn extra money not a real business.)
I guess they’ll have to further pander to the elitist client. You know, have big couches and Starbucks coffee, wireless (that won’t allow Amazon), fart snifting wine glasses, maybe some weird sexual toys for the 1% gay crowd, and so on. But above all, absolutely no conservative books whatsoever. And you can add a bunch of Muslim outreach books, too.
no, it is joe fox’s fault
At Borderlands Books, the minimum (and maximum) wage is now zero.
Ha!
Can’t they just take less profit? /lefthink
I'm no psychologist or professor of cognition, but I think that always having books read to you would numb a great deal of the part of brain that deciphers code (words) and links them into a series of thoughts. We would miss out on a lot.
Like Milton Friedman said: “The real minimum wage is always zero.”
If someone (like me) wanted to stir up some serious trouble, we could do a study of all the businesses in Seattle that run on a narrow expenditure margin and have a “Dead Pool”. Vote on which businesses run by leftists that will fail first. That would send ‘em through the roof, and be lots of fun.
My three daughters all got their first job at a Chick-fil-A at the mall across town. Sometimes they worked the same shifts, more often they did not.
Somehow they managed with a decrepit old second car, ride sharing with colleagues and, as a last resort, a ride home with Dad.
Compared to James Robertson, they had it easy.
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