Comments on: Borderlands Books, one of several Mission bookstores you never patronize, is closing because it is no longer financially viable, because San Francisco 2015

By: Wm. J. Bryan

Wm. J. Bryan — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 06:17:29 +0000

Update!

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By: Jdabs

Jdabs — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 22:08:52 +0000

I LOVE cat cafes!! Everyone loves cat cafes!! Even people who are allergic to cats tend to love cat cafes (they just love them from outside). Cats especially love cat cafes, especially at treat time!!

By: Andy Panda

Andy Panda — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 04:11:48 +0000

Andrew, meet Troll; Troll, meet Andrew. BFF?

By: Truth

Truth — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 20:26:18 +0000

Blaming it on the minimum wage is pretty silly, this is just a business model that’s losing viabilities. Even the big boys (Borders, B & N) can’t hack it. It’s just a reality that online shopping and e-books are putting brick-and-mortar bookstores out of business. They would have to get more creative to stay in business, they are keeping the cafe open, perhaps they could integrate the bookstore into the cafe.

By: troll

troll — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 20:14:57 +0000

So much talk. So little data. Yawn.

Wage increases/COL adjustments affect all small businesses, of course, but only really screw the ones that are poorly run. 61% of small biz owners favor minimum wage hakes. Doesn’t take much to realize that workers that earn more, spend more, helping an entire economy. If your bookstore can’t handle that, well see ya, you’re not helping the greater economy and that’s the way it goes. Actual business owners know it helps with productivity, turnover, and usually better service (so happier customers). Good luck with your business endeavors and kindly sit your ass back down.

By: Tuffy

Tuffy — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 17:29:39 +0000

I’ve run multiple business. I’ve also bought many books that have a sticker placed over the printed price on the book. Albeit, it’s usually to mark down the price. But it seems logical that an increase in price is just as feasible.

I think the more honest explanation as to their going out of business is not the minimum wage or the fact that they supposedly can’t set their own prices on the items they sell but that the brick and mortar book store is going the way of the video rental store, the fotomat and countless other once profitable endeavors.

By: Valenchia

Valenchia — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 07:26:07 +0000

Like you are an idiot who has never run a business?

By: Valenchia

Valenchia — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 07:24:31 +0000

@wurple: Please go and read their statement where they very clearly explain their costs. How is that BS?

Why is it that you can’t accept reality? Sorry, but raising the minimum wage does hurt small businesses. Holding your mouth until you turn blue and calling BS (without any fact to support that) will not change things.

Maybe you need grow up a bit.

By: Valenchia

Valenchia — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 07:21:48 +0000

No doubt Amazon has an effect, but they have been dealing with that for well over a decade now.

It is interesting how rather than accept that the law might actually have a negative effect on a business, you ignore reality and just claim that the business was not viable.

Public policy is sometimes a matter of making tough choices, but you seem to prefer to ignore the consequences of those choices and just denigrate hard working people who have built a business.

By: Valenchia

Valenchia — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 07:18:08 +0000

They are pretty explicit about their costs — do you have solution for them? Or do think calling them “lame” somehow proves your point.

What is really lame is people who think that raising the minimum wage won’t have an affect on businesses. They then get their panties in a wad when reality proves different. And they really get upset when people point out the effect of raising the minimum wage.

It may be right to raise the minimum wage. But to deny that it is going to have an effect on businesses is to just be blinded by ideology. If you are going to promote a policy then you need to accept that in the real world (as opposed to your fantasy land) it may have some undesirable consequences.

By: Tuffy

Tuffy — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 00:56:35 +0000

Like, can’t you just put a new price tag sticker over the one already printed on the book?

By: Floyd

Floyd — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 05:44:27 +0000

Sad. Pretty much my entire library is from Dog Eared, Aardvark, and Borderlands. Hope they find a way to continue. Great selection. Good staff. Appropriately freaky cat.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 04:54:38 +0000

WHO GOES TO BOOK STORES. good riddance.

By: NOAA intern

NOAA intern — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 23:29:22 +0000

This is Boston – not LA.

By: blah

blah — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:33:23 +0000

>the business has not been viable for a while, don’t blame the new law.

This is the reality. There is this thing called Amazon.com, perhaps they might have cited it in their press release.