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Why is this so DIFFICULT?
Dec. 5th, 2007 10:02 pmAfter another THREE STORE RUN I finally have Fury. It should not be this difficult to find a book that has been out for a week. At least the Coles people remembered it having BEEN on the shelf, but selling. They were listed as having one copy, but the system only updates once a day.
I'm somewhat skeptical that the same is true for the FORTY TWO phantom copies they had at Chapters. Especially since that's the number of phantom copies they had LAST time I looked. I blame all the random NOT BOOKS. MAYBE if they didn't have all sorts of space devoted to tacky Christmas baubles, they would actually be able to get BOOKS on the shelves in a timely manner. Seriously, what is with all the random junk? THey're a BOOK store for crying out loud. I go there for books. If I wanted tacky Christmas decorations, I'd go to a department store.
So they're not in my good book right now.
The Coles that didn't have it is in my good book though. Because the lady there actually ANSWERED "Hi, can you either help me find Star Wars: Fury or tell me where the nearest independent bookstore is?" I mean, I was JOKING because I was getting really frustrated, and she actually told me where to find one. :p
I wound up finding it at the next Chindicoles store, so I still got to use my discount card. It still should NOT have been this difficult to find. This isn't an obscure back catalogue title, it came out LAST WEEK. It also wasn't the release day, so they'd had PLENTY of time to actually put it on the SHELF.
GOodness knows I never had this problem in Middle of Nowhere, New Brunswick. THEY always had the new book on the shelf on the release date (or a couple days early... :p). And they had a feel for the demand for things and ordered accordingly. :p
I'm somewhat skeptical that the same is true for the FORTY TWO phantom copies they had at Chapters. Especially since that's the number of phantom copies they had LAST time I looked. I blame all the random NOT BOOKS. MAYBE if they didn't have all sorts of space devoted to tacky Christmas baubles, they would actually be able to get BOOKS on the shelves in a timely manner. Seriously, what is with all the random junk? THey're a BOOK store for crying out loud. I go there for books. If I wanted tacky Christmas decorations, I'd go to a department store.
So they're not in my good book right now.
The Coles that didn't have it is in my good book though. Because the lady there actually ANSWERED "Hi, can you either help me find Star Wars: Fury or tell me where the nearest independent bookstore is?" I mean, I was JOKING because I was getting really frustrated, and she actually told me where to find one. :p
I wound up finding it at the next Chindicoles store, so I still got to use my discount card. It still should NOT have been this difficult to find. This isn't an obscure back catalogue title, it came out LAST WEEK. It also wasn't the release day, so they'd had PLENTY of time to actually put it on the SHELF.
GOodness knows I never had this problem in Middle of Nowhere, New Brunswick. THEY always had the new book on the shelf on the release date (or a couple days early... :p). And they had a feel for the demand for things and ordered accordingly. :p
