Agreed. We have a discount/outlet bookstore near here called Daedalus. They have listening stations like Borders used to have – in fact, I wonder if they obtained some old fixtures from Borders.
When I visit Texas, I love visiting Half Price, although I seemingly can’t leave the store unless I’m $50 or $100 poorer (mainly with CDs). We do have used bookstores around here but it’s probably just as well (for me) that they aren’t like Half Price.
Yeah, when they did wind down here in the US, I visited a store when it was nearly empty – they were even selling the fixtures. However, they still had an endcap unit completely filled with Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue. Seems they couldn’t get rid of them (in my area).
I really couldn’t say… They still have (or had) Woolworth’s over there. Also Pizza Inn – I gather that they still exist in the US but I don’t remember seeing one in 25 or 30 years. They mainly drank instant coffee; when I did find a Starbucks, a small coffee was 1.75 – which seemed fine until I remembered that 1.75 in Oman is about US$5.
