Every chair or bench in a bookstore generates extra work and extra expenses to pay the extra hours worked. Some customers will collect every book or magazine that interests them, spend up to eight hours occupying a chair, leave without making a purchase, and leave behind cups, food wrappers, magazine blow-out cards, and the huge stack of books and magazines to reshelve.
Purely in self defense, in these hard times for book stores, chairs are eliminated or offered in reduced number. Comfy chairs that embrace and encourage long spells of nesting are replaced with no-nonsense wooden ones.
“Customers” who repeatedly make these messes but never buy a thing… or go home to order the books on Amazon (as if we were an Amazon showroom) are the first to complain. They will threaten to go to another bookstore (good luck finding one) and never come back. Such a loss!
Every chair or bench in a bookstore generates extra work and extra expenses to pay the extra hours worked. Some customers will collect every book or magazine that interests them, spend up to eight hours occupying a chair, leave without making a purchase, and leave behind cups, food wrappers, magazine blow-out cards, and the huge stack of books and magazines to reshelve.
Purely in self defense, in these hard times for book stores, chairs are eliminated or offered in reduced number. Comfy chairs that embrace and encourage long spells of nesting are replaced with no-nonsense wooden ones.
“Customers” who repeatedly make these messes but never buy a thing… or go home to order the books on Amazon (as if we were an Amazon showroom) are the first to complain. They will threaten to go to another bookstore (good luck finding one) and never come back. Such a loss!