The WSJ touts Barnes & Noble’s previously-announced store expansion plans as part of a bigger trend, as “several other big-box retailers are expanding again after years of shutting stores, a sign of the industry’s resilience emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic.” The bookseller has said it has “over 30 stores in development for 2023.” BN CEO James Daunt says, “We’ve now got both the profitability and the confidence to start opening up stores again.” The story concedes that, “Many of the new bookstores are smaller in size and opening in markets where larger locations had closed.” Often much smaller, as the […]
