Which is kind of weird. And sad. Sure, some small part of it was probably due to how they treated their employees (not well, in recent years, and never what you’d call “professionally”.) but probably mostly due to Amazon and for that, I feel sorry for them. There should be local independent bookstores. But not enough people feel that way to keep them open. (It’s not like I’d been in an Olsson’s in years.) So I guess there won’t be.
Towards the end, by all accounts, it was like Hechinger’s (the loss of which I’m still not over). You’d go there, but they wouldn’t have what you needed, so you’d leave empty-handed, which meant they couldn’t afford to buy more merch, which led to smaller chances of finding what you were looking for… the slow, sad death-spiral of the Family Business.
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