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Yes, this is true. There used to be a lot of local book stores, for example. Amazon optimized that away, while ruining social fabric.
by startupsfail 1y ago
Yes, this is true. There used to be a lot of local book stores, for example. Amazon optimized that away, while ruining social fabric.
- AfterHIA 1y agoRIP literacy in America. We hardly knew ye.
- dangus 1y agoIndependent book stores are booming in quantity since the initial Internet crash. Be careful about making narratives that don’t line up with industry data. There’s a lot of brick and mortar retail going on. It just doesn’t look like the overbuilt mall infrastructure of the 1970s-1980s.
- startupsfail 1y agoTwo decades ago, in the Bay Area we used to have a lot of books stores, specialized, chains, children's, grade school, college slugbooks, etc. Places like Fry's had a coffee and a book store inside. The population grew, number of book stores went down to near zero.