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muntrv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 09:35 PM Original message |
Went to local Borders Bookstore to use my gift card when in the front entrance |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
1. Remember the store does not decide on what to put on entrance |
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Hawkeye-X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 09:40 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I'd take all of Annthrax's books, turned inside out, hidden in some obscure bookshelf |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 09:56 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. All that does is make more work for some underpaid employee who probably agrees with you |
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Realityhack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 11:19 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. More work could mean they still have a job. |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 08:03 AM Response to Reply #16 |
29. It's quite apparent you never worked retail or retail management |
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Realityhack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 12:18 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Actually I have. |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 09:42 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Ah, Regnery . . . A mere hair's length from National Alliance. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 01:08 AM Response to Reply #6 |
21. Regnery is actually closer to something else and more scary |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
2. ugh. |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
3. Not the employees' fault -- publishers pay space and stores HAVE to us the planograms |
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Pab Sungenis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 09:43 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Then we don't go back, and let them know why. |
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blue_onyx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 11:04 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. I hope that doesn't happen |
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Realityhack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 11:18 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. I am not sure they are so mad about the selling as much as the promoting. |
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blue_onyx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 11:38 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. As long as Borders treats liberal authors the same as conservative ones |
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BreweryYardRat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 02:48 AM Response to Reply #17 |
27. It did. |
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Realityhack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 12:19 PM Response to Reply #17 |
31. If it didn't help spread the hate they would not pay for the position. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 01:11 AM Response to Reply #7 |
22. And that would be stupid |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 09:43 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. The employees do, but the customers don't. |
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Realityhack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 11:15 PM Response to Reply #3 |
14. no not the employees fault. But the businesses. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 01:13 AM Response to Reply #14 |
23. So tell you what, lets have borders NOT accept this from ANY publisher |
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Realityhack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 12:27 PM Response to Reply #23 |
32. Obama wrote a book of hate speech? |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 02:17 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. As much as I hate Regnery Press |
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Realityhack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 04:17 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. And I proposed outlawing such a sale when? |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 08:18 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. Then don't go and buy stuff at borders |
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liberalmuse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
5. I hope you've had your rabies shots. |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
10. In five months those books will be Dumped at the Dollar Store. ORielly and limbughs latest are there |
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Cid_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 12:49 AM Response to Reply #10 |
20. Didn't Oreillys latest make #2 on the NYT bestseller list? |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 05:49 PM Response to Reply #20 |
35. so did L Ron Hubbard ONLY because of the houses that buy discount copies and then later dump them at |
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Cid_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-08-09 05:14 AM Response to Reply #35 |
39. Interesting.. |
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peacetalksforall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 09:59 PM Response to Original message |
11. Keep this in mind. Her book will be in thrift shops within a few weeks and then eventually |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 10:00 PM Response to Original message |
12. You sure it wasn't the start of a four syllable phrase, ending with "-lookin'"? |
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SayitAintSo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-06-09 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
18. You need to engage in "Book Burying" in those instances... |
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CAG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 12:14 AM Response to Original message |
19. Don't hide the books, just put up a sign reading "Dips#$t zone" |
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specimenfred1984 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 01:15 AM Response to Original message |
24. Sick, that made me Gupta-up my entire dinner |
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bushmeister0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 01:29 AM Response to Original message |
25. Too little, too late, for them. I worked there for six and a half years, they're whores. |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 01:45 AM Response to Original message |
26. The bookstores can't help it for the most part, but you can do a little creative stacking sometimes |
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BreweryYardRat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 03:07 AM Response to Original message |
28. You know, people throwing hissy fits and suggesting boycotts over this need to sit down and THINK. |
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wizstars (792 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
36. So just do like I do--pick 'em up and spit on 'em. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-07-09 08:20 PM Response to Original message |
38. She's funny like a tumor |
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