why not Pet Rocks?

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I see they're closing another 200 28 Borders stores. The two around here were unscathed last time. I haven't looked at the PDF yet. I remember when Borders was the best book store chain in town.

I got one of their promo emails the other day, and they announced, as an inducement for us to come in and save their bottom line, free Silly Bandz for the kidz!

I swear, I halfway felt like crying. This is what they came up with? They used to be, well, good.

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[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

I still remember my first time in a Borders, when they were the new thing and there was one in the area and you had to drive a half-hour to get to it. After a world of Crown Books full of disappointment, it was like a magical wonderland.

[stevendj.livejournal.com]

They're closing 28 more stores, not 200.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Decadent organizations often show their worst side in publicity. I wish I'd kept the mailing with the pathetically daffy blurbs on the season's repertoire that a departed local orchestra sent out one of the years of its death throes.

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

Now, the question is, will we see a resurgence in small independent bookstores.
I hope so.

[meggins.livejournal.com]

Yes, the Borders up at Patrick Henry Mall is among the doomed.

Yes, I remember when Borders was a wonderland--before we got the local one and you had to drive to Richmond (and probably there was one in Norfolk).