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ORIGINAL: moontheloon quote:
It'll be a really sad day when you can no longer browse in a large bookshop anymore. I already witnessed and experienced the demise of Borders, so I'm glad I'm no longer with Waterstones because it won't be long..... I was talking about this with one of our regulars the other day. I love waterstones, and I love browsing the books. I buy far more books than I actually read (I always buy them with every intention of reading them all... but something goes wrong somewhere along the line). But I just love the fact that they have some interesting books that I wouldn't think to buy otherwise, it would be a massive shame if they went. The big HMV News is that from tomorrow (22nd Jan) we will be accepting gift cards again. All I can say is that it is about time. This is not only fantastic for those customers who have gift cards and haven't been able to use them, but it is great for the staff who will no longer have to answer the same question about gift cards 200 times a day and get verbally assaulted when they reply. There's also a deal with Hilco in the works so the news is telling us which is a step in the right direction. Work tomorrow will probably be a lot busier, but also a lot more pleasant. Oh I'm the same. I absolutely love browsing and buying new books, despite the fact I have dozens that have yet to be read because I keep buying new ones. I've got books I got at Borders that I've still not got round to reading - and I worked there 2008/2009! I'm constantly in the middle of reading a book, and despite having shelves full of unread books, I can't help buying new ones. I get so excited about the promise of a new story. Although mine are about 95% history, 5% mountaineering/climbing, so I don't mean story in the fictional sense. Anyway, that sounds like very promising news there moon? We certainly never got to reverse our gift card policy (we never stopped accepting them completely, we had some weird policy where we could accept half the money that was available on the card), so that sounds like a positive step. I think Hilco tried to help Borders, and were involved before we went bust.
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