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<blockquote data-quote="AE 87" data-source="post: 445510" data-attributes="member: 195"><p>The difficulty (my guess) is that brick and mortar book stores are a real challenge from a business stand point. It's hard to compete with online sales. B&N College overcomes some of the challenges (I suspect) by having access to multiple campuses and maintaining low overhead thru the use of student workers and young (inexpensive) store managers. So, the major decisions like marketing and stocking may be made off-site while the local store manager is more responsible for interacting with the local faculty and supporting their course requirements.</p><p></p><p>In other words, the economics of running a GT-controlled book store may not make much sense compared to a B&N store, but the trade-off is that you may lose capability for handling special events.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AE 87, post: 445510, member: 195"] The difficulty (my guess) is that brick and mortar book stores are a real challenge from a business stand point. It's hard to compete with online sales. B&N College overcomes some of the challenges (I suspect) by having access to multiple campuses and maintaining low overhead thru the use of student workers and young (inexpensive) store managers. So, the major decisions like marketing and stocking may be made off-site while the local store manager is more responsible for interacting with the local faculty and supporting their course requirements. In other words, the economics of running a GT-controlled book store may not make much sense compared to a B&N store, but the trade-off is that you may lose capability for handling special events. [/QUOTE]
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