Genre Bookstores hold off big chains --

[alfreda89]

I lost several independent stores I liked -- Toad Hall (a children's bookstore in Austin, TX that was forced to relocate when its lease went $$$, and then was not followed by enough soccer moms to the new location) and The Haunted Bookstore in Tucson, AZ -- a wonderful mystery and more store that apparently was crushed by two larger stores opening nearby. Adventures in Crime & Space lost their lease, and could not find anyone who would give them a lease -- even with three years rent in an escrow.

As these folks show, you must be Quick, in all its many definitions, to run a specialty store.

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