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A bookstore chain criticized for becoming a glorified airport store catering to TikTok trends rather than maintaining its identity as a traditional bookstore.

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"Being "on the prowl" at Barnes and Noble for 2 hours is desperate weirdo behavior. You go around, fake browsing the shelves, just waiting for cute women to walk in the door so you can try out your loser small talk script that you got from the internet."
"It really seems that approximately 12 men in this country actually read. I went to both Barnes and Noble and a local bookstore and 98% of the books were obviously written for women. I know I shouldn't expect that everyone of both genders is gonna be reading philosophy or Dostoevsky, but I borderline"
Going to bookstores as a man is depressing · u/ObsolescentFish · ↑484 · 2024-09-05
"Clearly if Barnes and Noble has it on display and you can buy it on Amazon, then it isn't fucking banned."
"we then went to barnes and noble where we proceeded to spend time in the YA section."
"I turned to look at them and they were the most mid looking mousy girls, barnes and noble type of chicks. In 2009 they'd just have 1 equally mid LTR bf."
"This obviously isn't a new thing, it just bums me out. These places at least used to look actual bookstores a few years ago. Now they're just glorified airport stores. Wall after wall, table after table of Colleen Hoover and dumb "themes""
"We'll meet at a Barnes and Noble (or similar book establishment), reaching for the same book (The Turner Diaries)."
Gonna start attempting to manifest a terminally ill girlfriend · crackvialeater · ↑130 · 2025-07-30
"One of the only "third places" where I could conceivably run into women is the gym which I know is off limits, so I'll try bookstores instead. Women seem to make a lot of tiktoks at barnes and noble so it probably has a good gender ratio, and I do like to read."
any advice for hitting on girls at barnes and noble? · umichleafy · ↑58 · 2026-01-09
"In December, she thought that the store was almost sold out of hannukah cards because Barnes and Noble was run by anti semites. This poor woman genuinely believes she lives in a country with like 1920s germany levels of anti semetic hate."
"jeopardyy champion amy schieder will travel 2 over300 barnes and nobel locations across america where she will twerk dressd as ruth bader ginsberg 2 promote lteracy"
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