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Re:What Can We Learn from Barnes and Noble's Surprising Turn... by criddell on Thursday December 29, 2022 @07:36AM (#34172003)
It’s possible that there’s more than one successful business model though, right?

I think the lesson may be that B&N wanted to be a successful bookstore and they achieved that by doing a better job serving book buyers mostly by giving individual stores more autonomy. That doesn’t mean another chain couldn’t succeed by turning into a books & trinkets store with a focus on high margin trinkets.

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Re:What Can We Learn from Barnes and Noble's Surprising Turn... by melony on Thursday December 29, 2022 @10:32AM (#34173616)
Here's the link if you want more details

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/books/booksupdate/indigo-...

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Re:What Can We Learn from Barnes and Noble's Surprising Turn... by BizarroLand on Thursday December 29, 2022 @12:42PM (#34175389)
I can see where you're coming from, there are multiple angles. B&N is setting themselves up as a bookstore for book lovers, and Inigo is setting themselves up as a book store for culture lovers.

Many paths to the same destination.

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