Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Why Does Costco's Local Book Selection Suck

If you ever go to Costco's web site and look at their selection of children's books you would find a lot of excellent titles to choose from. Some examples are Diary of a Worm, Where the Wild Things Are, and The Three Snow Bears. This doesn't include series books like Harry Potter or A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Now contrast this with the Costco's in the Treasure Valley. You'll find huge piles of gimmick books, you know the kind that have a toy packed in or buttons you push with very little story to them. Sure you can find the latest Harry Potter.

The selection is nothing close to what it looks like online. In fact you don't really see the gimmick books there. Why the difference?

Costco would get a lot more of my money if this was changed but whoever stocks their stores either doesn't have kids, or doesn't like to read to them.

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