[Boogieman]

“We’re not seeing enough customers to justify opening the doors and turning the lights and paying the staff to come down,”

Guarantee you that she’s a far left nut who probably wishes that all of society was still 100% locked down due to COVID.

There’s a bookstore near me that I used to go to. I stopped in a few months ago and they were insisting that customers put on rubber gloves before entering the shelves. They didn’t insist on that DURING the pandemic, only AFTERWARDS. So I’m not going back there again. The crazies can go broke for all I care, I’ll just give my money to Amazon I guess.

[1Old Pro]

There’s a bookstore near me that I used to go to. I stopped in a few months ago and they were insisting that customers put on rubber gloves before entering the shelves.

The only bookstore I've been in the past many years was in Chatham, MA. I walked in as I waiting for my wife in the store next door to see if they had any conservative books, not a one and they had a sign up to wear a mask, which I wasn;t wearing. Turned around and left. Bookstores are notoriously left wing.

[Myrddin]

When I lived in San Diego, I took advantage of the bookstores at UCSD and SDSU to find interesting text books specified for the current term courses. I moved to Pocatello, ID in 2000 and continued that practice at the ISU bookstore and a 3rd party college bookstore across the street. Post-COVID, the 3rd party store closed and the text books can no longer be browsed by walk-in customers. You have to be a student signed up for courses. The store staff fetches the titles for your course. A disappointing morph in college bookstore practice. There are shelves with contemporary offerings that are not course specific and not sequestered from walk-in customers. Frankly, I can peruse those titles and buy much cheaper via Amazon.