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This. I was about half in the ebooks camp already, so it's a digital future for me.Redneck_Buddha wrote:Have not missed Sprouts, and will not miss Half-Price Books either.
Barnes and Noble is still a thing?Rex B wrote:This. I was about half in the ebooks camp already, so it's a digital future for me.Redneck_Buddha wrote:Have not missed Sprouts, and will not miss Half-Price Books either.
I wonder what Barnes and Noble is doing?
Fortunately not all bookstores have bit the dust.Redneck_Buddha wrote:Barnes and Noble is still a thing?Rex B wrote:This. I was about half in the ebooks camp already, so it's a digital future for me.Redneck_Buddha wrote:Have not missed Sprouts, and will not miss Half-Price Books either.
I wonder what Barnes and Noble is doing?
I just looked at Texas3006.com and saw the photo where Applebee's was posted inside the entry......If this one has the same postings maybe that's why the restaurant's parking lot looked kind of dead. It wasn't getting much business.Tracker wrote:Drove by my home town's, Gainesville, What a Burger and Applebee's during lunch today.....no signs on either. Now, let's see if MDA or some anti group reads this and gives them a call. The vast majority of my community is staunchly pro 2a. If signs went up I expect their business to decline.
You have the right idea, but the math is flawed. Assume that 1,000,000 have CHL and 100% boycott, and let them know why, then go from there. When you are done, assume 25% might play, there is your number.. let's say 15-30m. Well, it won't do much good, if they don't know where the revenue went. So, create a site, and folks can post what they spent somewhere else, and how much, instead of XX, then they have some data to make a decision on.parabelum wrote:Something else to consider, not to go too far down the Friedman path but, if I have $500 to spend on groceries per month (hypothetically speaking) and if I choose to spend that money at a store that sits on both sides of the fence and not at, let's say... their competitors store that welcomes me and my properly holstered weapon, both OC and CC, then, am I not withholding $500/month from a store that supports my right 100% and giving it to a store that's lukewarm?
Now, extrapolate that by a certain %, let's say just 2%. Let's take TX 2014 census of roughly 26,000,000 residents. That's 520,000 people.
Maybe the average person spends $250/month for groceries. Let's say half of them choose to go elsewhere. That amounts to roughly $65,000,000 in monthly revenue loss.
Maybe it's no big cheese, but I can't imagine that it's something to sneeze at.
Just trying to demonstrate that we have more fiscal potential then we realize. Power of the purse.
I can agree with you there. So when their analysts start wondering why their profit margins are taking a hit in Q1/2016, what changed from Q4/2015 for example, they could detect the potential culprit for the profit bleed a bit more expeditiously... perhaps.tlt wrote:You have the right idea, but the math is flawed. Assume that 1,000,000 have CHL and 100% boycott, and let them know why, then go from there. When you are done, assume 25% might play, there is your number.. let's say 15-30m. Well, it won't do much good, if they don't know where the revenue went. So, create a site, and folks can post what they spent somewhere else, and how much, instead of XX, then they have some data to make a decision on.parabelum wrote:Something else to consider, not to go too far down the Friedman path but, if I have $500 to spend on groceries per month (hypothetically speaking) and if I choose to spend that money at a store that sits on both sides of the fence and not at, let's say... their competitors store that welcomes me and my properly holstered weapon, both OC and CC, then, am I not withholding $500/month from a store that supports my right 100% and giving it to a store that's lukewarm?
Now, extrapolate that by a certain %, let's say just 2%. Let's take TX 2014 census of roughly 26,000,000 residents. That's 520,000 people.
Maybe the average person spends $250/month for groceries. Let's say half of them choose to go elsewhere. That amounts to roughly $65,000,000 in monthly revenue loss.
Maybe it's no big cheese, but I can't imagine that it's something to sneeze at.
Just trying to demonstrate that we have more fiscal potential then we realize. Power of the purse.
In the end, I suspect things might settle out, at least that would be my overly optimistic hope.
That's the same canned answer someone else got in another thread.toddlinder wrote:My response from Half Price Books:
Thank you for your email. Half Price Books has had a long-standing policy making all of our stores and facilities weapons-free. This policy will not change in 2016, though we are now posting signs in our Texas stores that are compliant with the relative statutes starting on January 1st.
We know this is a sensitive issue and understand that there are many different viewpoints on the subject. However, it is the policy from our corporate offices, to our warehouses, and to our stores that weapons are not allowed on the premises. We decided to do this for the comfort of our employees and customers.
Again, thank you for contacting us.
I agree 100 %^^^^Rex B wrote:From what I am seeing in this discussion and others, few of us care at all about open carry and the 30.07 signs. I don't intend to carry openly, most of us don't so it's (almost) a non-issue.
What we really care about is the 30.06 signs that came in with so many of the 30.07.