Books-A-Million and Barnes & nobles have one advantage, people that really like books like picking up the books and looking at them. It also helps that you can usually get coffee and read your acquisitions and there are board games and all sorts of things that they sell to kind of balance out the mix.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

To be honest, I'm kinda surprised that I haven't seen any music store chains pop up. People like records, CDs, cassettes and so on for the same reason.

[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Around here, vinyl records and local record stores are still doing alright. There's at least 4 if them I know of, and they also sell some cds and tapes still. It is a little odd that no chain has tried to break into that space (or one of the megacorps like Time-WB trying to revitalize some deadmall brand like Sam Goodies.)

[–] machinaeZER0@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Newbury Comics is one place that's also managed to hang in there, which is pretty cool