The Worst News Day Ever

[magpie-leah.livejournal.com]

I was so sad to read the earlier post about La Contessa's closing and I was writing a friend about it and she pointed out this recent story about McIntyre & Moore:
http://somervillenews.typepad.com/the_somerville_news/2007/03/is_the_writing_.html

Comments

[agharta75.livejournal.com]

I agree, too.

It's not the bag check; it's that the staff seems to go out of their way to be unpleasant to you when you check your bag and are especially surly if you pick up your bag without buying anything.

I guess Harvard Book Store will be next. There's really not much left in the Boston area, compared to what was here five years ago. Just this week I found out that Quantum Books' branch in Waltham (formerly Softpro) is gone, leaving one lone tech book store where there once were four in the metro area. And Quantum seems to be shifting focus to gifts rather than books.

I wonder every day why I'm still paying high rents to live here. And I don't live in Davis; I live in one of the "cheaper" suburbs.

[ceo]

Just to clarify, Softpro wasn't a branch of Quantum. They moved from a convenient location in Burlington to a totally inconvenient one in Waltham, and closed a year later. They still have a store in Denver, however.

[ron_newman]

I believe Quantum took over the local Softpro store for a year or two before closing it.