A few dollars go a long way...
Aug. 6th, 2009 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nova_mythI want to scream.
Borders used to send me text messages for my coupons. They stop that a year ago. How I miss it. Last night I went to get a book I've been waiting for over 4 months. When I got home I checked my email and there sitting in my inbox was a 40% off coupon. The book was only $8, but as tight as I am on money, you get the idea. If they hadn't stopped the text messaging I would have received it while at the store or before I left the house. But I hold my anger because I read a report last year that said Borders was in trouble and if a miracle didn't happen they would be shutting their doors in 2010. I am seeing evidence of it. They keep the literature, romance, sci-fi/fantasy and all mainstream books stocked. But their Music section is only a 1/6 of what used to be there. They don't have promotion stands out except for twilight. They don't have the new book tables for hardcovers and paperbacks, now they have a small shelf. The store looks simply a nice set up for a lot of space. But I'm a regular and I noticed how its thinning. I'll go to borders at least once a month, if simply to wander and relax. I haven't been to the other two stores in the city, but now I'm getting curious. Are they in the same shape? I hope this is all an effort to pay off their dept nation-wide than a prequel to closing forever. I prefer Borders over B&N any day. B&N has come a long way in selection in the last two compared how they sat for years but they don't have a very friendly feel. Its always dark compared to Borders. If Borders closes what is to keep B&N from jacking up their prices? They used to be SO expensive and only in the year or two have come down on prices and that I believe is because of Borders.
Borders used to send me text messages for my coupons. They stop that a year ago. How I miss it. Last night I went to get a book I've been waiting for over 4 months. When I got home I checked my email and there sitting in my inbox was a 40% off coupon. The book was only $8, but as tight as I am on money, you get the idea. If they hadn't stopped the text messaging I would have received it while at the store or before I left the house. But I hold my anger because I read a report last year that said Borders was in trouble and if a miracle didn't happen they would be shutting their doors in 2010. I am seeing evidence of it. They keep the literature, romance, sci-fi/fantasy and all mainstream books stocked. But their Music section is only a 1/6 of what used to be there. They don't have promotion stands out except for twilight. They don't have the new book tables for hardcovers and paperbacks, now they have a small shelf. The store looks simply a nice set up for a lot of space. But I'm a regular and I noticed how its thinning. I'll go to borders at least once a month, if simply to wander and relax. I haven't been to the other two stores in the city, but now I'm getting curious. Are they in the same shape? I hope this is all an effort to pay off their dept nation-wide than a prequel to closing forever. I prefer Borders over B&N any day. B&N has come a long way in selection in the last two compared how they sat for years but they don't have a very friendly feel. Its always dark compared to Borders. If Borders closes what is to keep B&N from jacking up their prices? They used to be SO expensive and only in the year or two have come down on prices and that I believe is because of Borders.
