Really 10,000 dollars light fixtures?

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We all know that borders book stores are closing it doors. I stopped by to see what they had for sale. Books and no bathrooms (Rolls eyes). Above the comic sections, they had these light fixtures with all these Comic characters, Classic joker, Batman. Iron man, Ghost in a shell. I was Thinking it would be great to have in a arcade type setting.

So I track down the fixture manger and I asked him about the lights.

Without blinking he say It would cost me 10 thousand dollars for the lights, Plus I need to pay a 10 Percent premium because it was a store fixture. Plus I would have to hire a Licensed electrician to take down the lights plus I would have hire someone to patch the hole where the lights use to be.

I laughed, Oddly enough he was serious.
 
Our has beat to hell middle aisle shelves for $100 a section. (About 4 feet long)

Utility grade tables for same price; nothing you'd want in your house but if you owned a video rental store, comic book shop or book store (or were opening one) these would be great prices.

To pay...

...To open another store that will have to declare bankruptcy within a year or two.

I love my Kindle but I hate what it's doing to the great American book store. Same for my Netflix streaming account and RedBox, my 7 year old son doesn't know what the BlockBuster video building is even there for. He thinks the video rental store lives in my computer.
 
I love my Kindle but I hate what it's doing to the great American book store. Same for my Netflix streaming account and RedBox, my 7 year old son doesn't know what the BlockBuster video building is even there for. He thinks the video rental store lives in my computer.

LOL That's great - and sad.

You can blame a lot of things for pinching the bookstores. Everything from the green push (saving trees), Amazon's physical book prices, e-readers, tablets. A million reasons why they're going under. It's got it's ups and it's downs - Brick and mortar anything retail has been under attack for over a decade. It's heavy competition. I think once Borders realized how screwed they were there wasn't enough time to reform their business and become solvent.
 
Borders failed because they rested on their laurels for way too long and made a lot of stupid strategic decisions when they did finally diversify.

For example, when they finally did get into having an Internet presence, it was provided for them by Amazon. **facepalm**

Here's a good article:
http://www.slate.com/id/2299642/
 
We've still got a Half-Price Books locally, and the trade-in credit was always a selling point for me. Until the last time I took in a box of books; about 30 hardcover, some first editions with dust jackets and perfect pages, many were current best sellers.

They offered me $10 bucks for the entire box- f that. I took them home and don't plan to go back.
 
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