Barnes & Noble virtue signaling

[Justincase]

I love reading. I love coffee. So when Border’s went out of business I was gutted. Barnes & Noble filled that niche for me since then despite the crappy music. I’d go, grab a coffee and pastry, grade papers, check out a new book, and read all the expensive gun magazines for a few hours. I was literally today going to write them thanking them for not getting rid of gun magazines like so many other sellers. I get to the gun magazine section, and…nothing. I look around and find them languishing behind the abandoned checkout counter. Now if I want to read one, I’m made to feel like I’m some second class citizen jerking off to some smut magazine. Fuck them. I won’t be back. Actually you know what? I will. I’ll go back, bring my own refreshments and take up their space and leave the gun magazines on the “acceptable” shelf when I leave. I am so sick and tired of being made to feel like I’m some sort of terrorist.

 

[RedBreast21]

I love reading. I love coffee. So when Border’s went out of business I was gutted. Barnes & Noble filled that niche for me since then despite the crappy music. I’d go, grab a coffee and pastry, grade papers, check out a new book, and read all the expensive gun magazines for a few hours. I was literally today going to write them thanking them for not getting rid of gun magazines like so many other sellers. I get to the gun magazine section, and…nothing. I look around and find them languishing behind the abandoned checkout counter. Now if I want to read one, I’m made to feel like I’m some second class citizen jerking off to some smut magazine. Fuck them. I won’t be back. Actually you know what? I will. I’ll go back, bring my own refreshments and take up their space and leave the gun magazines on the “acceptable” shelf when I leave. I am so sick and tired of being made to feel like I’m some sort of terrorist.

As intended. They shame you and others into compliance.

 

[Saltwater60]

I’m surprised tops and wegmans keep them and a lot of them.

 

[GOYABEAN]

It's for the children where's the he she it them & the xyz section now up and center !

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

Soon enough you'll need training classes, a background check, and a renewable permit to touch them.

 

[Justincase]

It's for the children where's the he she it them & the xyz section now up and center !

You may be saying that in jest, but it actually was.

I’m surprised tops and wegmans keep them and a lot of them.

Tops took them out right after the murders there. Not sure about Wegmans

 

[GOYABEAN]

You may be saying that in jest, but it actually was.

Tops took them out right after the murders there. Not sure about Wegmans

Nah I ment it to be actual we're living in a episode of the twilight zone

 

[Saltwater60]

You may be saying that in jest, but it actually was.

Tops took them out right after the murders there. Not sure about Wegmans

Yes tops could have, but I just saw them the other day there so the local one by me didn’t.

 

[Justincase]

Yes tops could have, but I just saw them the other day there so the local one by me didn’t.

That’s great to hear actually.

 

[tc556guy]

I'm surprised they routinely let you thumb through the magazines without buying them
Maybe that's the real reason they've pulled them from the racks

 

[Justincase]

I'm surprised they routinely let you thumb through the magazines without buying them
Maybe that's the real reason they've pulled them from the racks

When was the last time you saw someone buy a magazine? They’re really just there to advertise the subscriptions as that’s where most of the publishers revenue comes from. Plus if I sit there and peruse and buy food and drinks for a few hours they’ve made tons more off of me than if I bought a couple magazines. I wish that’s why they pulled them but I’m not that naive.

 

[tc556guy]

When was the last time you saw someone buy a magazine? They’re really just there to advertise the subscriptions as that’s where most of the publishers revenue comes from. Plus if I sit there and peruse and buy food and drinks for a few hours they’ve made tons more off of me than if I bought a couple magazines. I wish that’s why they pulled them but I’m not that naive.

They aren't a lending library. They stock the magazines to sell them

 

[Justincase]

They aren't a lending library. They stock the magazines to sell them

And they’re a bookstore so no flipping through books to see if you like it first. Gimme a break.

 

[Jmac00]

Barnes & Noble are still in business?? Uum, who knew?

 

[tc556guy]

And they’re a bookstore so no flipping through books to see if you like it first. Gimme a break.

Flipping through a book is different than sitting there and reading the content. Seriously,you can't see the difference?
You think that some future customer wants to pay full price for the dog eared copy of the magazine you sat and read?

 

[nortatoga]

Flipping through a book is different than sitting there and reading the content. Seriously,you can't see the difference?
You think that some future customer wants to pay full price for the dog eared copy of the magazine you sat and read?

Those chair they have are meant for sitting in a long time!

 

[Justincase]

Those chair they have are meant for sitting in a long time!

They are. And I have. lol.

When I put the magazines back the other day I put them front and center spread out along the rack. Petty perhaps, but it made me feel better.