Showing posts with label ELECTRONIC GAMES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ELECTRONIC GAMES. Show all posts

Wednesday, 10 June 2009

BORDER DRUMMING DOWN BUSINESS

Or at least my local Borders - the Llantrisant branch in South Wales. It's a large store - of the kind we call a superstore - now last year Game, the software giant, took over a corner of the store. That's okay - except today they have one of those Guitar Hero like things set up - Drum Hero to be precise. How can you browse the books with a load of kids bashing away in the corner to the Free song, All Right Now?

That really pissed me off - two year ago I would have said Borders was the best shop in the world but now they seem to be driving their core customers away with a lack of choice (many shelves are empty) and this constant electronic noise puts me off the blurbs.

It's like book browsing in an arcade.

Now whilst I can understand Game wanting their goods on show, even demo games they are smack bang in the middle of a bookshop. For christ sake - show a bit of common sense. Borders main role is as a bookseller but the staff here appear to be without a clue -over the last few months the range of titles has decreased and soon they will only be stocking the bestsellers - which you can get across the road at Tescos for much cheaper. I was loyal to Borders because they stocked all authors and titles, not just the top twenty sellers. And now I have to contend with a load of Cozy Powell wannabe kids.

Let's be careful out there......

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