Went into a Barnes and Noble

[Anonymous No.11386531]

I mean, what the fuck?

Inb4 "what did you expect." I just didn't know we'd gone this low.

[Anonymous No.11386535]

all the toy shit is in one small area, just fucking ignore it do you want them to go under or nah

[Anonymous No.11386549]

suck pussy under toy

[Anonymous No.11386555]

>>11386535
It'd be better if they just went under. Local bookshops can take over where there is still interest.

[Anonymous No.11386573]

I saw a walking stereotype buy 20 of those things at Barnes and Noble a few weeks ago

[Anonymous No.11386584]

>>11386573
Same, except it was a group of stereotypes and they were all poos.

[Anonymous No.11386594]

>>11386584
Mine was a basedboy

[Anonymous No.11386595]

>>11386535
This one wasn't. There's more toys than that.

[Anonymous No.11386603]

>>11386594
Yeah that's what I meant. They were basedboy and basedgirl poos.

[Anonymous No.11386664]

>>11386535

Be wary. Modern distribution methods work like a cartel racket. Big companies dictate how many toys another company will buy before that company is allowed to even stock them.

This is how Disney, and their failed Star Wars, accidently bankrupted Toys R Us. They forced them to take on a ridiculous amount of shitty stock that never sold.

[Anonymous No.11386682]

>>11386678
On*

[Anonymous No.11386688]

>>11386664
Books about this?

[Anonymous No.11386812]

>>11386664
Shame toys r us was pretty gud

[Anonymous No.11386915]

>>11386531
I’d like you to know that it’s poor form to inb4 as op.

[Anonymous No.11388101]

Okay, this is epic!

[Anonymous No.11388116]

>>11386664

That's one aspect of it, but the other, much bigger problem was their shitty financial management in general. They leveraged too much of their capital, and it fucked them when they couldn't pay it back anymore.

[Anonymous No.11388258]

>>11386535
does anyone actually buy that shit? I presumed it was money laundering or some sort of tax write off

[Anonymous No.11388264]

yeah it's a shame that they stopped selling books


oh wait

[Anonymous No.11388276]

>>11386555
Well sure but the limited titles in a small area means you often have to order them in advance, and at that point you may as well just have them ship it to you, meaning you're really just shopping online with extra steps.

[Anonymous No.11389232]

>>11388258
>does anyone actually buy that shit?
It gets non-readers to come into the store during X-mas. That is literally the only reason it exists.

[Anonymous No.11389234]

>>11386531
/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories, poetry, creative writing, etc. If you want to discuss history, religion, or the humanities, go to /his/. If you want to discuss politics, go to /pol/. Philosophical discussion can go on either /lit/ or /his/, but ideally those discussions of philosophy that take place on /lit/ should be based around specific philosophical works to which posters can refer.

[Anonymous No.11389274]

>>11386531
My nearest Barnes and Noble was selling these, candles, dolls of other kinds, beanie babies, and novelty pens and stationary near the end; they had a full starbucks attached to them. But I stopped going for about a week and when I came back, GONE, GUTTED, no sign of anything left, just totally blank wiped clean building with a For Lease sign. And this was in a major shopping area with loads of tourism and foot traffic, people just don't care about books anymore, and even less about physical ones. And no number of gimmicks will save some of their stores. I hope wherever you took this at continues to turn a profit for a few more quarters before you lose a book store.

[Anonymous No.11389294]

>>11386531
half price books is the master race

[Anonymous No.11389298]

>>11389274
the union square barnes and noble will never die

[Anonymous No.11389339]

>>11389294
this

[Anonymous No.11389371]

>be me
>go to Barnes & Noble
>looking for philosophy section
>fat neckbeard in the anime section is reading through a manga and chuckling to himself
>loses balance and bumps into a shelf
>fungo-pop landslide starts in the store
>have to take shelter in the in-store starbucks megaopolos
>emergency services finally manage to dig us out hours later
>finally make it to philosophy section
>it's full of school of life and alain de botton books

[Anonymous No.11389392]

>>11386531
I went in to buy pseud cred books from /lit/core list and it was mostly hobby books and trinkets and people looking for biographies, and memoirs. less than half the people in front of me in line were even buying literature mostly just bios and gift cards for relatives they don’t love. Humans are swine we deserve climate heat death

[Anonymous No.11389409]

>>11389392
>Humans are swine we deserve climate heat death
how about a holocaust
That's an interesting thought, actually. If whites evolved from blacks, and blacks killed all the whites, would whites once more evolve from blacks?

[Anonymous No.11389413]

>>11389409
>If whites evolved from blacks, and blacks killed all the whites, would whites once more evolve from blacks?

[Anonymous No.11389424]

>>11389409
how high are you?

[Anonymous No.11389430]

>>11389409
masterful shitpost
>>11389413
>>11389424
PHILISTINES!

[Anonymous No.11389431]

>>11389409
whites are the results of humans and neanderthals interbreeding

[Anonymous No.11389461]

>>11389294
My nigga

[Anonymous No.11389467]

Amazon is a blight upon this earth, and Jeff Bezos deserves to be hunted through the wilderness like an animal before he's finally cornered and shot to death.

[Anonymous No.11389468]

>>11389371
I chuckled. But it was a sad chuckle.

[Anonymous No.11389474]

>>11389467
ya i hate being able to have any book ever published delivered to my door in like two days, jeff bezos is such an asshole!

[Anonymous No.11389555]

>>11389474
>tfw Amazon no longer ship to Australia from thier US store and the Australian store's selection is shit
Even local chain book shops here like dymocks have a better range.

[Anonymous No.11389846]

>>11386531
I mean lots of kids stuffs or pop stuffs as well..can you even buy comics or artbooks there (like marvel dc stuffs)?
I fucking hate them as they're stupidly designed and some really butcher up the character..but it has a good pricetag and uses cheap materials. It's gonna be a cashgrab.
I don't think it's low as actually selling books is not that easy as well-especially as big retailers.

[Anonymous No.11389876]

>>11389298
Just like how the 5th Ave FAO Schwartz would never die, or the Times Square Toys R Us, huh? It might take a decade or two but that sucker will be a fashion flagship before you know it.

[Anonymous No.11389879]

Which way, western man?