![]() “If you have that paper to write, we'll be able to take you that section and say, 'Here's all the books you need on the Constitution they're right here’."īarnes & Noble employees will be temperature-checked each day and will wear masks, though mask aren't required for customers. ![]() “All of those books are going to be grouped in a much more intuitive way,” Krupa adds. Similar topics and authors are now more accessible to book-loving eyes. It's as if Barnes and Noble has created spacious, city-states within a literary country.-turning sections like science fiction and history and others into their own little worlds. Wider aisles…clever arrangements… all to make book browsing a cozier, more personable experience. “We really got to work on redesigning the store, redesigning the layout, creating more space, creating a more intuitive shopping experience," explains Krupa. ![]() Among the changes: sort of a reconfiguration of parts of the store, changes that gives customers more room to breathe, more room to browse, more room to be with… books. “We can't serve the community right now for very good reasons, but what could we do so that when we open up we have a great bookstore, a better bookstore.”Īs of Friday, May 29th, Barnes and Noble is back. "We really missed our customers, but then we thought-what can we do?” says Barnes & Noble Booksellers’ Jorey Krupa, as he recalls the thinking of management during the pandemic-enforced shutdown of nearly two months.
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