On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In most of the big book shops around here, finding where in hell they put a > particular class of titles is incredibly time consuming. If I go to the > information desk and wait for a salesdroid to come by and provide > assistance, all they're going to do is look at the same inventory computer > screen that I look at and tell me whether "RQ-V11.24-FR_T" is in inventory, > then look up with the same tool where in the store it *might* be, and walk > me there. > > If I go directly to the computer, I do the same thing in half the time. > > Small bookshops ... a completely different world. ;-) This was taken at one link of Canada's largest chain of booksellers, Indigo Books. They're horrible places, not just for what they are, but for their predatory practices - many small bookshops have closed down due to them. It's getting harder and harder to go into a musty old place that ~smells~ of books, because they just aren't around any more. The thing that gets me about these computerized inventory thingies is that when they say the book is out of stock, I end up going to the shelves to check anyway - and sometimes find a copy! If they say there ~is~ a copy, I go to the shelves. What it's come down to is that I go to the shelves first one way or t'other; it saves a step that way. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
