Racist Barnes and Noble Display

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

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.

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?

[deepimpact2]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

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.

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.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

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.

The NY Post was different in that the management KNEW what they were doing...you cannot compare what they were doing to this.

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

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.

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?

Like epchick said, it's not hard to do what this random customer did.

[deepimpact2]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

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?

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.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

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.

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

[epchick]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

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.

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?

[deepimpact2]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

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?

What are you talking about?

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

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.

It said the area WAS ACCESSIBLE to customers.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

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

No.

Racism lingers because people (in general) are looking for, and are outraged over, displays at B&N and email forwards of watermelon patches.

If all of that stuff ends and prejudiced people keep their opinions to themselves because they don't want to offend black folks and spark an NAACP march...racism still will not end.

[deepimpact2]

Originally Posted by epchick

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?

I'm not the one ignoring facts.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by deepimpact2

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.

I got an e mail about it last week and KIM...there are a few things worth not raising an alarm over and this was one...

I disagree...if someone felt that the window was a problem, they should have gone into the store rather than try to pin the entirety of B&N.

If it was a bunch of B&Ns that did that display under auspicies of management that would ahve been one thing...but one randam store???


NNNnaaaaaaaahhhh.....

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



ETA There is a reason why this DIDN'T make news...google it and see what you find.

**Must be sad when you quantify news by how many hits you get from google!**

[cheerfulgreek]

There's no way B&N would have done that. That totally was a customer prank.

[deepimpact2]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

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

Sure thing.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

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

Darnit!!!

So they REALLY needed that publicity. They dropped the ball.