At 09:17 AM 6/1/2004 EDT, DanAbnrml9@aol.com wrote:
>I don't know how stores like this stay open, since A) CLEARLY no one is  
>shopping in them and B) their operating expenses must be extraordinary. I
mean,  
>this store is in Copley Place, one of the most upscale malls in the Boston
area 
> (and one of only two malls in Boston city-proper). Their rent must be  
>extraordinary! And yet just across the skywalk is a slightly less expensive  
>(though still pretty high) Barnes and Noble with a music department that
is at  
>least somewhat more pleasant to shop in, and two blocks away are the far
better 
>(on all counts) Virgin Megastore, Newbury Comics, and several used
stores. And 
>as a side note, why is it still called Record Town? TransWorld  eliminated 
>that brand name a few years ago to unite all their mall-based chains
under the 
>FYE banner.

I honestly think that Transworld might have simply forgotten about this
store: I'm in Copley Place a *lot* and I only realized that this store even
existed a few months ago.  It's stuck in a backwater dead-end of the third
floor, with nothing of any interest around it.

I'm shocked that this Barnes and Noble -- which is huge even by B&N
standards...I think the local press said that it was the largest B&N store
in the entire chain when it opened last year -- not only hasn't shut down
this pathetic Record Town, but that the Brentano's directly underneath it
(an equally terrible chain bookstore owned by Waldenbooks) is still open as
well.  

S