I remember in the 1990's 3 diff. books stores. Two were Bookstop and Waldenbooks, which are no longer around. I also remember Borders, which I remember from the 2000's, and probably went out of business 6 years ago. Side note, I remember offering a $25 membership to a lady, and she said, "Borders had free membership." I almost said, "yeah, and they aren't around anymore."
Anyway, the only other bookstore in the area is Half Price Books. A lot of people coming in the bookstore said, "I buy my books online, though this one I'm buying in-store is because it's not online." Or they download books and only come in to buy other things we sell.
Ok, why I think the bookstore might fold soon nationwide, not counting getting books online.
1) Around Feb. they eliminated some full-time positions. The new head-cashier was there for 2 months and lost her job. They re-hired her 2 months latter as a part-timer. They let 3 other people go.
2) My hours are cut. I used to work 3:30-10:30 some weekdays. In May my weekdays were cut to 5-10. Other people that had to work late nights, not counting the manager, also had to leave at 10pm. Now they had hired a girl who worked 2-5. Don't know why that made sense. Now one manager told me he rather the store close at 9pm instead of 10pm. So hours are being cut. Now I forgot when they started to cut cashier's morning hours.. So instead having a cashier coming in at 9am, they have the cashier come in at 11 and have a bookseller work at cashiering. Recently the cashiers start at 9am instead of 11am.
3) We have a membership where the customer buy it for $25 and save 10% on all purchases (except gift card purchases and downloads and products from online purchases). We didn't offer online price matching. Then in April or May Cooperate offer price matching with our website prices. We don't tell members, they have to ask. For months (before this new policy) people would ask if we price match our website and we had to explain "no" (there was no set reason; sometimes it was because the website is a different company, or just the overhead). So now if they ask, we say "yes". One time a woman said her facebook group let her know we are price matching our website.
Anyway, the only other bookstore in the area is Half Price Books. A lot of people coming in the bookstore said, "I buy my books online, though this one I'm buying in-store is because it's not online." Or they download books and only come in to buy other things we sell.
Ok, why I think the bookstore might fold soon nationwide, not counting getting books online.
1) Around Feb. they eliminated some full-time positions. The new head-cashier was there for 2 months and lost her job. They re-hired her 2 months latter as a part-timer. They let 3 other people go.
2) My hours are cut. I used to work 3:30-10:30 some weekdays. In May my weekdays were cut to 5-10. Other people that had to work late nights, not counting the manager, also had to leave at 10pm. Now they had hired a girl who worked 2-5. Don't know why that made sense. Now one manager told me he rather the store close at 9pm instead of 10pm. So hours are being cut. Now I forgot when they started to cut cashier's morning hours.. So instead having a cashier coming in at 9am, they have the cashier come in at 11 and have a bookseller work at cashiering. Recently the cashiers start at 9am instead of 11am.
3) We have a membership where the customer buy it for $25 and save 10% on all purchases (except gift card purchases and downloads and products from online purchases). We didn't offer online price matching. Then in April or May Cooperate offer price matching with our website prices. We don't tell members, they have to ask. For months (before this new policy) people would ask if we price match our website and we had to explain "no" (there was no set reason; sometimes it was because the website is a different company, or just the overhead). So now if they ask, we say "yes". One time a woman said her facebook group let her know we are price matching our website.
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