Tuesday, February 17, 2009

what I noticed at B&N yesterday

I took the kids out to lunch yesterday at Red Robin for a special treat. We then went over to B&N since the youngest still had a gift card to use from Christmas. He debated for a while between getting a book and getting a game or puzzle. The store had several tables full of toys leftover from Christmas. He wound up selecting a logic game involving arranging planes on a grid like an air traffic controller would. He loves it, and his sisters are enjoying it too. Priced at half off, it was quite a deal.

What I noticed as we browsed the store were the number of 'sale' tables scattered everywhere. Usually they are clustered in one section by this point in the year. Not yesterday....sale tables in every aisle between the book stacks. Lots of books marked down and lots of other 'stuff' marked down too. I picked up a gorgeous Ravensberger puzzle marked half off for a niece. I may head back and do some other pre-event shopping.

A sideline note here....our used bookstore at the library is thriving. One of the big used book dealers shops us to stock his own store in the major metropolis west of me. He is coming in quite regularly of late, almost every 3 weeks. This indicates to me that his business is up.

It is all about price point. At what price do you let go of the money in your wallet?

Just so you won't despair, we did buy two full price items at B&N....middle daughter had to have the latest in the Clique series and the oldest loves logic puzzles and found a book full of them.

1 comment:

Kim Smith said...

Do you think a bad economy might bring back used bookstores with the fury they used to have?