Thinking of "brand death" always reminds me of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, which featured the Bell System, Pan Am, Howard Johnson's ... not to mention nixie lamps!
In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people
march:
"Where to? what next?"
“I was just there tonight, but you know, you can see how the internet spoils you.”
You can say that again. I went to B&N with my iPhone and used the Amazon mobile app to compare book prices. On four books I saved over $70 by going with Amazon over the B&N. I asked the manager to match the price. He said “nope” and I walked out $70 better off.
As hard as it is to stomach the condescension of bookstore employees who are almost exclusively liberal, I enjoy browsing in bookstores. Stacey's, a large, beautiful independent bookstore in downtown San Francisco that I used to frequent on my lunch breaks, suddenly disappeared after 85 years. It was heartbreaking riding by on a bus for the first time in weeks and seeing the banners screaming that fixtures were for sale.
Borders is all there is left in San Francisco with easy parking (Barnes & Noble is at Fisherman's Wharf).
It still ticks me off the way libs demonize Wal-Mart, saying that it kills downtown businesses. There may be a kernel of truth in that, but Amazon.com is slowly murdering the entire retail book industry. Forget mom-and-pop stores, whole chains are going south. Any anti-corporate union-thug types boycotting it? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?
/tinfoil hat on/......Just the governments way of controlling everything you do....only businesses that will be around will be internet based so all your goods will be controlled....what you can have and how much you can have will be controlled by people who know better than you.... /tinfoil hat off/
BTTT
I walked into the local Borders at Christmas time a couple of years ago. Immediately in front of the door there was an enormous display of gay erotica. I left and haven’t been back.