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Old 03-10-2009, 05:54 PM
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Racist Barnes and Noble Display

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/...0News/2212274/


Perhaps I overlooked it, but I did not see a thread about this, and I felt it was worth discussing.

I will no longer be shopping there, and I think other people should do the same. The spokesperson or owner of the chain was on the Tom Joyner show recently with major attitude, which showed that he really doesn't care. However, the most insulting aspect of it was the lie that they are trying to use to excuse it. They are saying that a customer did it. From what I know of that store, that display is in a section that is not accessible to customers.
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Old 03-10-2009, 06:00 PM
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Perhaps I overlooked it, but I did not see a thread about this, and I felt it was worth discussing.

I will no longer be shopping there, and I think other people should do the same. The spokesperson or owner of the chain was on the Tom Joyner show recently with major attitude, which showed that he really doesn't care. However, the most insulting aspect of it was the lie that they are trying to use to excuse it. They are saying that a customer did it. From what I know of that store, that display is in a section that is not accessible to customers.
It was a hoax and a set up...that's why you didn't get too much news on it.

and yes...it is quite possible a customer did it.

I have to side with B&N on this one as it's too much of a random individual act act to say that the store did it or that is the chain's mindset.
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Old 03-10-2009, 06:02 PM
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It was a hoax and a set up...that's why you didn't get too much news on it.

and yes...it is quite possible a customer did it.

I have to side with B&N on this one as it's too much of a random act to say that the store did it.
How is it a hoax and a set up?

Someone would have seen a customer going into that area. They don't make a habit of allowing customers into that area. Besides, as I said, the owner's obvious attitude the other day says it all.
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Old 03-10-2009, 06:05 PM
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It was a hoax and a set up...that's why you didn't get too much news on it.

and yes...it is quite possible a customer did it.

I have to side with B&N on this one as it's too much of a random individual act act to say that the store did it or that is the chain's mindset.
Co-sign.

I saw this display right around the time the watermelon lawn pictures surfaced. Thank goodness, they didn't receive the attention that the messenger(s) intended.
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Old 03-10-2009, 06:07 PM
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That's nothing compared to Lafayette Bakery's racist "Drunken Negro Cookies" that were sold on inauguration day in Greenwich Village. http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/arch...tte_baker.html
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Old 03-10-2009, 06:08 PM
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Perhaps I overlooked it, but I did not see a thread about this, and I felt it was worth discussing.

I will no longer be shopping there, and I think other people should do the same. The spokesperson or owner of the chain was on the Tom Joyner show recently with major attitude, which showed that he really doesn't care. However, the most insulting aspect of it was the lie that they are trying to use to excuse it. They are saying that a customer did it. From what I know of that store, that display is in a section that is not accessible to customers.
I'm not sure I understand why some people are feeling the need to boycott B&N.

It wasn't someone from B&N who put it there, and it certainly was not part of their display/floor plan.

That happened because some idiot customer thought it would be funny put the book there, and started circulating it around the internet.

B&N had nothing to do that with that.

It could have happened if that person walked into a Borders store or any other store instead of B&N.

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Old 03-10-2009, 06:10 PM
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I'm not sure I understand why some people are feeling the need to boycott B&N.

It wasn't someone from B&N who put it there, and it certainly was not part of their display/floor plan.

That happened because some idiot thought it would be funny put the book there, and started circulating it around the internet.

B&N had nothing to do that with that.

It could have happened if that person walked into a Borders store or any other store instead of B&N.
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.
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Old 03-10-2009, 06:13 PM
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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.
Apparently you don't know how to read the article you posted:

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He added that customers had access to the window display via a two-foot wide corridor between the bookshelf and the storefront.
I have stood in the window at one of my B&N, it isn't hard for a customer to place a book there without a lot of people noticing.
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Old 03-10-2009, 06:14 PM
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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.

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Old 03-10-2009, 06:14 PM
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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.
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Old 03-10-2009, 06:15 PM
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This is why racism still exists..people always find a way to dance around it or excuse it.
No. No. No.

Racism isn't contingent upon any of this. LOL.
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Old 03-10-2009, 06:16 PM
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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.
How do you know he was lying? Are you the manager of the B&N, or someone who actually saw this display?

You keep telling people here that they don't know what they are talking about, but it seems like you are the clueless one.
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Old 03-10-2009, 06:17 PM
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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.
Prove it.
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Old 03-10-2009, 06:17 PM
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How is it a hoax and a set up?

Someone would have seen a customer going into that area. They don't make a habit of allowing customers into that area. Besides, as I said, the owner's obvious attitude the other day says it all.
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.
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Old 03-10-2009, 06:19 PM
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No. No. No.

Racism isn't contingent upon any of this. LOL.
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.
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