Yes, I gotta write that letter now.
Sep. 2nd, 2009 12:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgDear Borders next to Really Large Airport Near Ocean In My Neighborhood:
You suck.
No, really. Like whoa.
Like you have more square footage than the Los Angeles Colliseum and only three warm bodies to stock, check and work registers. I checked. They're awesome. Your staffing policies, not so much.
Your store was a total wreck the Edmund Fitzgerald would envy. Unless you were a YA vampire novel and everything was fine. (What, does Little, Brown and Company hire its own merchandisers when you guys won't?) Oh dear GHADS, I hate vampire novels. I'm rapidly losing even patience with genre. GUESS why.
People were buying books. LOTS of them. I watched. Woulda been one of them, turkeys. *flips finger* Not happening again anytime soon.
Going home to Torrance. Thank you for costing me an entire HOUR I could have been HOME for nothing.
*throws rotten tomatoes*
No, they had copies of Rosemary & Rue, they just had no EARTHLY IDEA where they were. And I couldn't even complain - I could see why. I felt sorry for them.
I was PISSED at losing an entire hour in a wild fae chase. If I had wanted another sucker of a book, I'd have been fine! But noooOOOOOOooo - I want something else!
Ugh.
Dear Amazon:
Thank you so much for having my back when I boast of my B2B association with your company, and how you never fail to amaze me with your JIT inventory skills.
And for my copy of Rosemary & Rue in my mailbox waiting for me when I got home, ahead of the 9/4 delivery you promised me.
Mwah. You may have been birthed from the bowels of Wal-Mart, but I love you anyway.
*tosses jasmine*
Keep in mind, I couldn't start reading until kid was asleep - oh, I think about 8:30 PM or so.
And I put myself to bed by 11:00, most nights the target is 10:00 PM. I think I hit somewhere between those two last night.
201 pages, yo. And my self-discipline is mighty.
I'm utterly delighted. This is Seanan's work polished to a high gloss and it's wonderful.
More comprehensive reviews later. Promise. Maybe even a FST.
You suck.
No, really. Like whoa.
Like you have more square footage than the Los Angeles Colliseum and only three warm bodies to stock, check and work registers. I checked. They're awesome. Your staffing policies, not so much.
Your store was a total wreck the Edmund Fitzgerald would envy. Unless you were a YA vampire novel and everything was fine. (What, does Little, Brown and Company hire its own merchandisers when you guys won't?) Oh dear GHADS, I hate vampire novels. I'm rapidly losing even patience with genre. GUESS why.
People were buying books. LOTS of them. I watched. Woulda been one of them, turkeys. *flips finger* Not happening again anytime soon.
Going home to Torrance. Thank you for costing me an entire HOUR I could have been HOME for nothing.
*throws rotten tomatoes*
No, they had copies of Rosemary & Rue, they just had no EARTHLY IDEA where they were. And I couldn't even complain - I could see why. I felt sorry for them.
I was PISSED at losing an entire hour in a wild fae chase. If I had wanted another sucker of a book, I'd have been fine! But noooOOOOOOooo - I want something else!
Ugh.
Dear Amazon:
Thank you so much for having my back when I boast of my B2B association with your company, and how you never fail to amaze me with your JIT inventory skills.
And for my copy of Rosemary & Rue in my mailbox waiting for me when I got home, ahead of the 9/4 delivery you promised me.
Mwah. You may have been birthed from the bowels of Wal-Mart, but I love you anyway.
*tosses jasmine*
Keep in mind, I couldn't start reading until kid was asleep - oh, I think about 8:30 PM or so.
And I put myself to bed by 11:00, most nights the target is 10:00 PM. I think I hit somewhere between those two last night.
201 pages, yo. And my self-discipline is mighty.
I'm utterly delighted. This is Seanan's work polished to a high gloss and it's wonderful.
More comprehensive reviews later. Promise. Maybe even a FST.
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Date: 2009-09-02 08:15 pm (UTC)I seem to be buying more and more stuff online for that very reason.
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Date: 2009-09-02 08:36 pm (UTC)Go B & N.
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Date: 2009-09-02 10:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-02 11:34 pm (UTC)Field Sobriety Test?
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Date: 2009-09-03 02:20 am (UTC)I still think Borders is better than Barnes and Noble though, but I used to work in a large independent store, and am fully aware of the nasty trade practices these large corporate chains use. As for Amazon, they're ok, but still rather overrated. I won't go into my reasons for thinking that though.
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Date: 2009-09-03 02:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-03 04:00 pm (UTC)