On Dec 22, 12:12*pm, wrote:
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:37:26 -0800, jps wrote:

LAREDO, Texas — The final chapter has been written for the lone
bookstore on the streets of Laredo.

With a population of nearly a quarter-million people, this city could
soon be the largest in the nation without a single bookseller.

The situation is so grim that schoolchildren have pleaded for a
reprieve from next month's planned shutdown of the B. Dalton
bookstore. After that, the nearest store will be 150 miles away in San
Antonio.

I assume the "book stores" can't compete with Walmart. I know around
here B&N is having their ass handed to them by Target, Walmart and the
public library. I see lots of people milling around but not many
actually get into a checkout line. If it wasn't for the coffee they
might not be making any money at all.
There is also a lot of pressure from the internet
Amazon will make it tough for anyone who has rent to pay in a mall.
I would never buy a DVD in a store. You can usually get a disk or a
book sent to your house cheaper than the best bargain bin deal in a
store.

Unlike some here, I notice that you caught the lie in that "news"
report. There will be plenty of "booksellers", just no dedicated book
stores. The mouthbreathers among us read it, believed it, and
reposted it as the gospel. Too funny.

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:38:32 -0500, Gene
wrote:

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:29:54 -0800 (PST), Jack
wrote:

On Dec 22, 12:12*pm, wrote:
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:37:26 -0800, jps wrote:

LAREDO, Texas — The final chapter has been written for the lone
bookstore on the streets of Laredo.

With a population of nearly a quarter-million people, this city could
soon be the largest in the nation without a single bookseller.

The situation is so grim that schoolchildren have pleaded for a
reprieve from next month's planned shutdown of the B. Dalton
bookstore. After that, the nearest store will be 150 miles away in San
Antonio.

I assume the "book stores" can't compete with Walmart. I know around
here B&N is having their ass handed to them by Target, Walmart and the
public library. I see lots of people milling around but not many
actually get into a checkout line. If it wasn't for the coffee they
might not be making any money at all.
There is also a lot of pressure from the internet
Amazon will make it tough for anyone who has rent to pay in a mall.
I would never buy a DVD in a store. You can usually get a disk or a
book sent to your house cheaper than the best bargain bin deal in a
store.

Unlike some here, I notice that you caught the lie in that "news"
report. There will be plenty of "booksellers", just no dedicated book
stores. The mouthbreathers among us read it, believed it, and
reposted it as the gospel. Too funny.

"Booksellers" could be the grocery store, if you consider National
Enquirer fair game.

A metropolitan area that big that won't support even one dedicated
book store has a cultural and literacy problem. The top 10 least
literate cities in the US contain El Paso, Corpus Christi, and San
Antonio.

A metropolitan area that big that wouldn't support even one dedicated
building supply would be seen as a problem. Wal-mart might sell
hammers and nails, but that isn't a building supply.

In the same way, a "bookseller" is not a dedicated bookstore.....

Anything Jackoff would want to read is certainly at Walmart.

On Dec 22, 4:38*pm, Gene wrote:
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:29:54 -0800 (PST), Jack
wrote:





On Dec 22, 12:12*pm, wrote:
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:37:26 -0800, jps wrote:

LAREDO, Texas — The final chapter has been written for the lone
bookstore on the streets of Laredo.

With a population of nearly a quarter-million people, this city could
soon be the largest in the nation without a single bookseller.

The situation is so grim that schoolchildren have pleaded for a
reprieve from next month's planned shutdown of the B. Dalton
bookstore. After that, the nearest store will be 150 miles away in San
Antonio.

I assume the "book stores" can't compete with Walmart. I know around
here B&N is having their ass handed to them by Target, Walmart and the
public library. I see lots of people milling around but not many
actually get into a checkout line. If it wasn't for the coffee they
might not be making any money at all.
There is also a lot of pressure from the internet
Amazon will make it tough for anyone who has rent to pay in a mall.
I would never buy a DVD in a store. You can usually get a disk or a
book sent to your house cheaper than the best bargain bin deal in a
store.

Unlike some here, I notice that you caught the lie in that "news"
report. *There will be plenty of "booksellers", just no dedicated book
stores. *The mouthbreathers among us read it, believed it, and
reposted it as the gospel. *Too funny.

"Booksellers" could be the grocery store, if you consider National
Enquirer fair game.

A metropolitan area that big that won't support even one dedicated
book store has a cultural and literacy problem. The top 10 least
literate cities in the US contain El Paso, Corpus Christi, and San
Antonio.

A metropolitan area that big that wouldn't support even one dedicated
building supply would be seen as a problem. Wal-mart might sell
hammers and nails, but that isn't a building supply.

In the same way, a "bookseller" is not a dedicated bookstore.....

While that's all true enough, there are still some facts left out of
the story repeated here. Such as the fact that they were shutting
down *all* of the outlet stores (not just the one in Laredo) in favor
of the large, complete line stores. The fact that B. Dalton is
planning a large store for Laredo in 2011. And the fact that, as was
already pointed out, Laredo is 94% Latino.

The problem isn't Texas, it's demographics and an extreme case of
immigration. Down here in dumb ol' South Carolina, I can just about
throw a rock and hit 3 big-box book stores. And they're thriving.