Originally Posted by deepimpact2 (Post 1788802)

Apparently you and many other people keep missing the part about that display not being in an area accessible to customers.

This is why racism still exists..people always find a way to dance around it or excuse it.

Originally Posted by texas*princess (Post 1788812)

I don't know how B&N is staffed in your area, but at every single B&N store I've been to here in the metroplex (and there are a ton), B&N tends to be pretty lean when it comes to staff on the floor.

There is one... MAYBE two cashiers, but they usually have to call up the second person via their intercom if the line gets long, and their employees are VERY scarce around the store. I'm lucky to find one person working there who is randomly walking around to get help finding a specific title.

Even if there are 4 or 5 people on the floor during every shift, it's not like they have the kind of bandwidth to stand guard at every display or every shelf to make sure customers don't move books around - intentionally or otherwise... there is product to put on the shelves, people to check out, etc. They can't control the actions of every single customer at every moment. The best they can do is fix things that they see are amiss - titles that were moved to the wrong section being one of them.

Originally Posted by deepimpact2 (Post 1788813)

Actually it is. I don't know if you were being sarcastic or not, and at this point I don't care. One of the main reasons racism is continuing to linger is that nothing is being done about it. When things like this happen, everyone wants to find excuses for it and brush it under the rug. It was the same thing with that cartoon in the NY post. Excuses were made for that. The powers that be told everyone it wasn't racist, people bought it. The end.

Not to mention the fact that there is something inherently wrong when these entities think it is okay to blatantly disrespect the President of the United States in this manner.

Originally Posted by deepimpact2 (Post 1788808)

Actually I did read, which is why I said he was lying. He's going on the assumption that people aren't familiar with the store enough to know the difference.

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid (Post 1788814)

This isn't anything to be danced around...it's really a non news item...

and FWIW...it also could have easily been an employee...this isn't something that we can hang over all of B&N.

For the time it took for someone to take the picture, they could have easily walked into the store, talked to the floor manager, see what feedback the floor manager gave AND IF they got back less than satisfactory explanation, made something out of it.

Let's ask, why in this whole chain of events, that didn't happen?

Originally Posted by DrPhil (Post 1788807)

Those Drunken Negro Cookies were just ugly. They probably tasted great.

The person who did that wanted 15 minutes of infamy(sp). I'm sure the sales for that place have increased since then.

Originally Posted by deepimpact2 (Post 1788815)

If a display is in an area that is not accessible by customers, then there is no excuse. If I recall, this is one of the display cases that is directly behind the cash registers. Customers don't go back there.

Originally Posted by texas*princess (Post 1788817)

So your first argument was that the area was not accessible to customers, so when that what proved wrong, now you're saying it's b/c the manager said it's because ppl aren't familiar with the store layout?

Originally Posted by deepimpact2 (Post 1788815)

If a display is in an area that is not accessible by customers, then there is no excuse. If I recall, this is one of the display cases that is directly behind the cash registers. Customers don't go back there.

Originally Posted by deepimpact2 (Post 1788813)

One of the main reasons racism is continuing to linger is that nothing is being done about it.

Originally Posted by epchick (Post 1788820)

And again I say, the article states that customers did have access to that area. So a customer could have gone to put the book there.

You really like to ignore facts, don't you?

Originally Posted by deepimpact2 (Post 1788818)

That doesn't seem suspicious to me at all. FWIW someone could have, but they chose to ignore it and they certainly wouldn't reveal that.


And I disagree about it being a non news item. It's a big issue. I'm glad someone decided to make people aware.

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid (Post 1788826)

Sweetie....you gotta back off of this one....come in off tha' ledge.

Originally Posted by AOII Angel (Post 1788819)

I doubt it, only because I've been there....that place is GROSS!