> you simply can't And yet, virtually every retailer for the last 3+ decades has, in fact, done so as a matter of normal operations. It has nothing to do with

> you simply can't And yet, virtually every retailer for the last 3+ decades has, in fact, done so as a matter of normal operations. It has nothing to do with Obamacare. The employment norm was not to only schedule full-time hours for part-time employees (which, even before Obamacare, violated a lot of employment law). Aside from laying off full-time employees after the cycle (which they justified by the crap sales during Christmas), B&N refused to staff-up as normal for virtually every other retailer in North America, to accommodate the most predictable sales cycle in the world... basically in order to justify the firing the full-timers. This was a hit job by insiders looking to profit off the corpse.