Wal-Mart is not a book store...
...and Best Buy is not a music store, but their prices are cheap (personally I think the latter rips you off on DVD box sets, but that's just me). Wal-Mart is trying to be a bookstore though.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33347048/ns/business-consumer_news/
business.theatlantic.com/2009/10/wal-mart_takes_on_bookstores.php
See? Why do people buy books at Wal-Mart? Because they are already there and they are cheaper. But Wal-Mart's book selection sucks; so if you wanted, say a good book, and not mainstream vampire dribble (Yeah, I read the Twilight books: summary Book 1: Decent, Books 2-3 Angst, Book 4: Was not read because Books 2 and 3 weren't decent) you still have to go to a bookstore.
Granted in oh, I don't know, maybe 200 years the Twilight Saga will likely be considered a literary classic, since most of the people who ever thought that the books were okay, or that the movies were shoddy and overrated and notable only for their popularity will be dead. Assuming of course, that humanity hasn't destroyed itself by then, but that's a rant for another time and place.
Not that I shop at bookstores very often, as there aren't many near me, and I don't drive. I order from Amazon and will continue to do so for s long as they keep selling books. No they aren't a book store in the traditional sense, but they have a large enough selection for me to consider them a legitimate bookstore, something which Wal-Mart lacks, not counting Wal-Mart.com, which I don't because Wal-Mart is a physical store, not an online entity.
Oh yeah, and getting back to Best Buy, how do they justify charging 39.99 for a 6 disc complete series and 69.99 for a two disc complete series from the same studio, from the same distributor, and in the same format - DVD. Someone tell me how that isn't a ripoff?
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33347048/ns/business-consumer_news/
business.theatlantic.com/2009/10/wal-mart_takes_on_bookstores.php
See? Why do people buy books at Wal-Mart? Because they are already there and they are cheaper. But Wal-Mart's book selection sucks; so if you wanted, say a good book, and not mainstream vampire dribble (Yeah, I read the Twilight books: summary Book 1: Decent, Books 2-3 Angst, Book 4: Was not read because Books 2 and 3 weren't decent) you still have to go to a bookstore.
Granted in oh, I don't know, maybe 200 years the Twilight Saga will likely be considered a literary classic, since most of the people who ever thought that the books were okay, or that the movies were shoddy and overrated and notable only for their popularity will be dead. Assuming of course, that humanity hasn't destroyed itself by then, but that's a rant for another time and place.
Not that I shop at bookstores very often, as there aren't many near me, and I don't drive. I order from Amazon and will continue to do so for s long as they keep selling books. No they aren't a book store in the traditional sense, but they have a large enough selection for me to consider them a legitimate bookstore, something which Wal-Mart lacks, not counting Wal-Mart.com, which I don't because Wal-Mart is a physical store, not an online entity.
Oh yeah, and getting back to Best Buy, how do they justify charging 39.99 for a 6 disc complete series and 69.99 for a two disc complete series from the same studio, from the same distributor, and in the same format - DVD. Someone tell me how that isn't a ripoff?