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"I know it's a really dumb dream job but since I was a kid I have always fantasized about working at Barnes and Noble. I know it heavily caters to Tik Tok and Instagram audiences and they have put a ton of brick and mortar stores out of buisiness but I still love them. Going in there just levels my m"
"On the days he has his boys, he just takes them to Barnes & Noble or the park while his ho ass baby mama shakes her ass at night clubs all weekend."
"It was mostly a collection of the same handful of classics with different aesthetic covers, scattered around the store. I counted four different versions of Meditations, for example, and probably six or seven versions of Pride and Prejudice. It felt like I was looking at set design pieces that incid"
"walked into barnes and nobles for the first time in ages; all the tables near the entrance were 'spicy romance,' while the romance section (+ya slop) established itself in, at minimum, 30% of the store. each cover (decorated with monotonous, banal two-dimensional humanoid figures lacking any definin"
"As a kid, I loved going to the local bookstore or Barnes & Noble with my dad. He'd pick me up from school and I'd go look at all the Putumayo CDs, with their great Global Village Coffeehouse vibe."
"Though I'd eventually downplay it and call it gauche, consumerist, etc, Barnes & Noble felt incredibly special back then... squishy chairs, intentional decor, rows upon rows of neatly organized books. I pictured hushed yet passionate conversations in the break room about literature's future or lamen"
"one of the few that didn't either turn totally woke in the past two years and isn't B&N. everything sucks. i'm sad. :("
"I went to my local B&N today and there was a large gathering for "Spicy Saturday." There were some authors signing their booktok smut books and I could hear people in line talking about how they love so-and-so guy from whatever book and how hot and caring they were and what their favorite kinks and "
"How about some weathered and tastefully austere selections from the used bookstore instead of that Barnes & Noble copy of Master and Margarita with a cover that looks like a webcomic."
"the banned book discourse takes away attention from the retail experience of major book stores like Barnes & Noble. They took most of the chairs and tables away since 2020 and havent brought them back. Half the store is just the funkopop section at GameStop plus a bunch of self-help books that might"
"I stopped at Barnes and Nobel to pick up a copy of Houellebecq's "Serotonin" and when she scanned the book at the checkout the cashier said "I've been waiting for somebody to buy this.""
"How about some weathered and tastefully austere selections from the used bookstore instead of that Barnes & Noble copy of Master and Margarita with a cover that looks like a webcomic."
"the banned book discourse takes away attention from the retail experience of major book stores like Barnes & Noble. They took most of the chairs and tables away since 2020 and havent brought them back."