Borders closing today - 90% off

kelly4509

Just made it to my local Borders in time. 15 mins before closing SA on tannoy announced that everything apart from calendars and mags was reduced to just 10p. Cue everyone filling up their baskets like it was a trolley dash.

Came out with 4 bag fulls = 38 books for the grand total of £3.80! Some good holiday reads, a couple for the kids, plus a few interesting travel guides.

SA's looked like they were getting ready to have a few well earned drinks after the last customers had gone.

newsgroup_monkey

I'll be honest, I was in the huge Borders in MK yesterday (80%) and there was very little. As someone pointed out, the best thing was the Calendars, but they were sold out.

Best off going to Poundstretchers for your calendars. All the unofficial ones (MJ, Liverpool, England, loads of others) are reduced to 69p.

I was really lucky and picked up some Barrington Stokes books, but unfortunately they only had one title left once I left.

bc3000

Went into Borders today in Bristol but they really didn't have much I was interested in.. maybe random fiction and things that I'm not interested in like "how to get your child into secondary school" lol.

JoolzS

I'm slightly sad to see them go, but have wondered for at least two years how on earth they get enough customers. Every time I've been in one of their stores (usually to use the loo) I had no idea how they were still trading. I love books, buy books, but never bought from borders because they were mainly waaay over-priced.

Julie

rosekitten

I was in the Speke Borders store they still
had some good books left all 10p in the last hour
I was lucky enough to buy the large roll of gift
wrap,must be 50 metres plus, on the roll,weighed
a ton managed to get it to the boot of the car
it will keep me going in gift wrap for yonks,10p what
a bargain.
Son got lots of LFC posters as well as lots of different
Harry Potter Posters,also a lucky find in the bottom
of the poster box the latest Keane album.

There were loads of calenders left but with only
30% off even at the close of business,they were
never going to sell,they must have plans for them.

So sad this shop is no more

Danyúl_II

kelly4509 wrote: »

Just made it to my local Borders in time. 15 mins before closing SA on tannoy announced that everything apart from calendars and mags was reduced to just 10p. Cue everyone filling up their baskets like it was a trolley dash.

Came out with 4 bag fulls = 38 books for the grand total of £3.80! Some good holiday reads, a couple for the kids, plus a few interesting travel guides.

SA's looked like they were getting ready to have a few well earned drinks after the last customers had gone.

ahahah :rotfl:

strav100

I was in Borders in Inverness today - great book store, nice place to mooch around and have a coffee at Starbucks. It was the only decent store in the retail park - clean, airy, had a good ambience and friendly staff - and in fact one of the only decent place to go in Inverness in the evening to have a coffee - the alternative is just bars/pubs etc.

However, it was sad to see the place today, all the shelving being ripped up, books all muddled everywhere - it seemed the customers (including myself) were like vultures ripping the last morsel of the carcass, especially when a few people were coming in with Tesco trolleys and piling them full of 10p books - the losses must have been colossal (1000 books for £100 ??). However, looking back to several months ago, I noticed they were no longer putting the orange/white price stickers on the back of the books. Everything was being sold at RRP and even some books didn't have the price on them or were in US$. This might be due to a management change at the top level. Such a tactic would put off customers purchasing books in store and drive them on-line to purchase. Although we all love Borders - IMHO there was no way in the long term it could make money (although Inverness was the only one in the UK I have heard that did !!)

Stryder

Warrington Borders was great - i missed out on the 10 p thing (suspected they would have that) but took advantage of the 90% discount and got £250 worth of books for £25. To be honest - in Warrington there would not have been a not a lot worth taking after i left - although I would have picked up a few of the classics if there were for 10p. The really good buys would have been taken or manhandles so overall - no complaints.

Shame how some people have been throwing books around for days though - felt sorry for the staff - sacked of Christmas eve and thier books thrown like trash.

Still I did not go Borders often and last time I went I went out with nothing and complained about the service. Funny - whether its Borders or jut the price of books - in the 30% sale a couple of weeks ago most books I would not have bought at that price. Too much competition for them I think.

Still - i wonder how many people will be getting random 10p books for Christmas???



thinking about it - many of the books in the 90% sale were only 50p - £1.

Maybe if they were 10 p I would have bought two or three good books - but also a load of rubbish too!!!!

Stryder

Oh - just a thanks to the staff who remained relatively upbeat in horrible circumstances.

Merry Christmas and good luck finding work in the New Year

bulletproof_1979

JoolzS wrote: »

I'm slightly sad to see them go, but have wondered for at least two years how on earth they get enough customers. Every time I've been in one of their stores (usually to use the loo) I had no idea how they were still trading. I love books, buy books, but never bought from borders because they were mainly waaay over-priced.

Julie

I wouldn't say over priced - just normally priced compared to the Tescos of the world, who sell books at cost/ or a loss to get people in and spending. We moneysavers can't really grumble about shops closing as it's quite oftens a result of people getting the cheapest price for something somewhere else...