From The Seattle Times:
The Barnes & Noble bookstore in downtown Seattle’s Pacific Place shopping center is closing this weekend. A sign inside the store announces: “This Barnes & Noble is closing on Jan. 18. Thank you for your patronage over the past 22 years.”
This is the second Barnes & Noble location in Seattle to close within the past 12 months: The West Seattle store, in the Westwood Village shopping center, shut down in January 2018. The once-mighty Barnes & Noble chain has struggled nationally in the age of Amazon; in the past decade, it has closed more than 150 stores. Its University Village location closed in 2011. Barnes & Noble was acquired by Elliott Management, a hedge fund, last summer.
The closure leaves downtown Seattle without a general bookstore.
Link to the rest at The Seattle Times and thanks to D. for the tip.
I went in that store years ago a) to check trends in YA covers and b) spend money burning a hole in my pocket. I left depressed and without anything to read. I WANTED to buy something. I preferred nothing to what was on sale.
It’s sad, but they did it to themselves. What rational human goes to a book store to buy pasta?
There’s another one in suburban NYC that has announced downsizing into a smaller space.
Floor plans indicate Boda Borg, a reality gaming company, will take over the 25,358 square-foot bookstore on the fourth floor that has a separate entrance to the parking lot. Barnes & Noble, meanwhile, appears slated to move to a space nearly half that size on the first floor
https://rcbizjournal.com/2020/01/17/palisades-center-seeks-shakeup-freshness/