Barnes & Noble has a program to unfastened 30 stores successful 2023, making the bookseller the person successful what’s being called a big-box revival. This enlargement comes aft much than a decennary of shrinking its fig successful effect to contention from Amazon. There are adjacent a mates of the caller stores being opened successful the Boston country that are, possibly fittingly, going to beryllium successful locations antecedently occupied by Amazon Books.
Expansion this size is imaginable due to the fact that of a strengthened involvement successful books and speechmaking that came arsenic a effect of the pandemic — much radical work due to the fact that they were stuck astatine home, and Barnes & Noble locations were capable to amended stores portion they were closed.
At its highest successful 2008, Barnes & Noble had 726 locations passim the U.S., but present has 600. With its program for openings successful 2023, it volition spot much stores opened than closed. The caller stores volition beryllium designed similar autarkic bookstores and volition promote customers to linger.
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