CLOSING MORE BORDERS Liquidators are already bidding to run going-out-of-business sales for as many as 200 Borders and Waldenbooks bookstores nationwide, ahead of an expected bankruptcy filing from the book retailer that could come as early as Monday, reports the WSJ’s Mike Spector. Closings of an additional 50 of the chain’s total 674 stores could come later, according to sources who spoke to Spector and reporter Jeffrey Trachtenberg. There are 7 remaining Borders locations in the Houston area — in the Galleria, Meyerland Plaza, on Kirby at West Alabama, in Bush Intercontinental Airport, in the Baybrook Mall, at Fountains on the Lake in Stafford, and in the Market Place Shopping Center in The Woodlands. The company closed its locations in the Willowbrook Mall, in Houston Center, in the Northwest Mall, and at Westheimer near Gessner early last year. [Wall Street Journal; previously on Swamplot]
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There was a Borders at the Northwest Mall?
Is that Borders in Meyerland even open?
@cd-yes!
Meyerland location fairly busy on the weekends.
I used to work at the Westheimer location. I’ll miss the big box bookstores, but I do most of my book buying on Amazon. Add in ebooks, and you’re looking at a dying industry.
Know what sucks? I saw a kid at Borders the other night grab a book off the shelf, take it over to his laptop, then order it off Amazon. I asked him where else he was going to go study all day when the store shut down because all he did there was nurse a $2 coffee and take up space.
BYE BYE BOOKIE BOOKIES BYE BYE BOOKIE BOOKIES
TOOT INSTEAD LIKE ME…. IT IS FUN!!!!!
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
bye bye
How about some theatre retrofitting!