Barnes & Noble

What’s not to love about string in peace while your kids are in school? This chick is happy

Big book store. Very helpful staff.

I replaced B&N with Borders as my favorite bookstore. As Chanel says, if you’ve been to one, you’ve been to them all. This store seems to be much darker than the Borders outlet, and the layout of the store is not conducive to finding what you are looking for without trying to find an employee. Better signage would help.
Also, the idea of charging $ 25.00 for a one-​year «membership» in their discount club is pretty lame. Borders has the same type of club, AT NO COST, and still sends out coupons and rewards. Why the difference? I’d guess that B&N just adds that to their bottom line and whoops about their profit.
All major mega-​bookstores are just about the same – they all carry books and magazines and pretty paper. The biggest differences are the staff and the ambience. The staff at this B&N is not quite as good as I would have expected – and certainly not as good as the staff at the store in Tempe Marketplace (AZ) where I visited two weeks ago. The ambience is only passable. I go here only when I get gift cards!

What can I say about this place? If you’ve been to one Barnes and Noble, you’ve been to them all. This one, however, has a very laaaaaaaaarge selection of new books that I was quite impressed with. Their selection is MUCH larger than the Borders bookstore just across the parking lot. Kudo’s to them for that.