Not to mention what people don't know is that Barnes & Noble not only donates books that don't sell, they have a used book program through the website.
How is this a crime that warrants an "Investigative Report" B&N does what other retailers do when they do not sell through clearance items. They throw it out cause cheap people like this woman would not buy them for a $1.
B&N is a private company and they have every right to do with the inventory they purchased.
This shows the entitlement mentality that has poisoned this country.
They only in the past year or so began recycling the mass market paperbacks. It WAS difficult to recycle because of the glue holding the book together.
barnes and noble needs to be investigated here in spartanburg sc as they helped my green card wife commit marriage fraud so many dirty practices at their stores
i worked at barnes and noble. they would strip the covers off of hundreds of books every year. i can't even tell you how many of them i took home to read. the managers had no problem with it. i now hate barnes and noble.
I currently work at a BN. Mass Market Paperbacks are "stripped" and the covers are mailed back to the publisher and money goes where it's supposed to, while the actual "book" part is all recycled. This is not a wasteful process; on the contrary, it is good conservation and resource management while remaining cost-effective. This only applies to MM Paperbacks though. BTW, I'm no manager, just a little music peon, but I take time to (generally) understand a process before I bash it.
@PatrickMcWMusic I work at BN too here and even I know that everything has a limit to it. Food in particular in our cafe (just like in any restaurant) has a strict time limit on it because it wastes fast. The books at my store are recycled as well. We send the trade paper and hardcovers back to their publishers to be reprinted and so forth and our mass markets are "stripped" as well.
I find it great they ended up getting what books they could. This shouldn't reflect on all Barnes and Nobles, I know one of the local ones intimately and they're constantly donating and they've never done anything like this.
They cannot be donated because the company is not aloud to simply give out or donate books that has leagal connections to either the publisher or author. It would be like a soda distributor giving out Pepsi products or something...
Not to mention what people don't know is that Barnes & Noble not only donates books that don't sell, they have a used book program through the website.
Olgalevin1984 1 month ago
How is this a crime that warrants an "Investigative Report" B&N does what other retailers do when they do not sell through clearance items. They throw it out cause cheap people like this woman would not buy them for a $1.
B&N is a private company and they have every right to do with the inventory they purchased.
This shows the entitlement mentality that has poisoned this country.
Again...what law was broken?
YampoGA 1 year ago
It is not about pride for books. For people like the manager in the blue shirt, Craig Schlabs, it is about Money!Money! Money!
By the way, when I worked there they also threw out perfectly good food as well every night.
Like the books and the employees they are disposble to B&N.
dfwhuskermike 2 years ago
i can not belive it why would bn even do that i thought they had great pride for books or mabe there just frauds
singhatar0912 3 years ago
They only in the past year or so began recycling the mass market paperbacks. It WAS difficult to recycle because of the glue holding the book together.
daviddens4d 3 years ago
who the hell on the way to see their mother, drives by the back of a B&N (where the dumpsters) are anyways?
JillianJade7982 3 years ago
barnes and noble needs to be investigated here in spartanburg sc as they helped my green card wife commit marriage fraud so many dirty practices at their stores
OmnipresenceBastard 3 years ago
@OmnipresenceBastard No offense but I don't see any connection here.
Olgalevin1984 1 month ago
i worked at barnes and noble. they would strip the covers off of hundreds of books every year. i can't even tell you how many of them i took home to read. the managers had no problem with it. i now hate barnes and noble.
theunit32 3 years ago
I currently work at a BN. Mass Market Paperbacks are "stripped" and the covers are mailed back to the publisher and money goes where it's supposed to, while the actual "book" part is all recycled. This is not a wasteful process; on the contrary, it is good conservation and resource management while remaining cost-effective. This only applies to MM Paperbacks though. BTW, I'm no manager, just a little music peon, but I take time to (generally) understand a process before I bash it.
PatrickMcWMusic 3 years ago 3
well, when i worked there, they weren't recycled. they were tossed in the trash. this was a few years ago.
theunit32 3 years ago
Wow... that's... not policy... weird.
PatrickMcWMusic 3 years ago
i know. i felt like i was actually in farenheit 451.
theunit32 3 years ago
Yeah that's crazy. It can't be that hard to recycle those, I mean they're just paper.
PatrickMcWMusic 3 years ago
@PatrickMcWMusic I work at BN too here and even I know that everything has a limit to it. Food in particular in our cafe (just like in any restaurant) has a strict time limit on it because it wastes fast. The books at my store are recycled as well. We send the trade paper and hardcovers back to their publishers to be reprinted and so forth and our mass markets are "stripped" as well.
Olgalevin1984 1 month ago
I wonder if the B&N manager in the blue shirt, Craig Schlabs, still has his job.
cowboyredskin 4 years ago
I find it great they ended up getting what books they could. This shouldn't reflect on all Barnes and Nobles, I know one of the local ones intimately and they're constantly donating and they've never done anything like this.
prometheanterror 4 years ago
Wow...what a waste of a news report.
They cannot be donated because the company is not aloud to simply give out or donate books that has leagal connections to either the publisher or author. It would be like a soda distributor giving out Pepsi products or something...
DisneyParksFan 4 years ago
dumpter diving = stealing
Koobdren 4 years ago
they stole those books
Koobdren 4 years ago