Schuler's has been a great store for us. These days I get to the Alpine store much more often than the one on 28th Street -- but come Christmas time we usually dump a couple hundred dollars in presents. Real shame to have a family of book readers. Growing up there was always that point either Christmas afternoon or the day after when the house got quiet and everyone was sitting around reading some of their book pile!
They're large enough to have in stock almost always what we're looking for -- and plenty of stuff we didn't know we were looking for (grin) -- but locally owned and INTERESTED in being a bookstore! (double-grin)
I remember when B&N was building their big box store on 28th Street, we were worried that they'd wipe Schuler's out. But Schuler's said they weren't worried, that B&N and mall bookstore customers weren't usually their customers, and they went and built the new 28th Street store and they've thrived ever since.
Chapbook Cafe at Schuler's does a fine, fine job, too.
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Re: Thanks for your Support
Date: Thursday, 19 November 2009 17:16 (UTC)They're large enough to have in stock almost always what we're looking for -- and plenty of stuff we didn't know we were looking for (grin) -- but locally owned and INTERESTED in being a bookstore! (double-grin)
I remember when B&N was building their big box store on 28th Street, we were worried that they'd wipe Schuler's out. But Schuler's said they weren't worried, that B&N and mall bookstore customers weren't usually their customers, and they went and built the new 28th Street store and they've thrived ever since.
Chapbook Cafe at Schuler's does a fine, fine job, too.
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