Comment by Tiktaalik
8 hours ago
Wild note here that Costco stopped selling books ?!?!
I remember going shopping with my Mom at Costco and the book section was like the highlight!
8 hours ago
Wild note here that Costco stopped selling books ?!?!
I remember going shopping with my Mom at Costco and the book section was like the highlight!
Growing up in rural Illinois in the 1980s meant a large number of the books I read came from places other than bookstores.
We did have a Waldenbooks in the mall that was 45 minutes away that we went to 4x/year, but the local library was tiny and I read everything worth reading there probably before I was 10.
The local grocery store had a small section of mass-market paperbacks, and it was my primary place to get books. I know it had lots of Stephen King novels, and I think my first copy of Dune may even have come from there.
(Hardcovers were something that libraries had, not anything normal people would buy, as far as I knew.)
Mine usually has a bunch towards Christmas time.
When was this? I don’t recall Costco selling books outside of coloring books and seasonal stuff.
https://archive.is/MBOmm
> Beginning in January 2025, the company will stop stocking books regularly, and will instead sell them only during the holiday shopping period, from September through December. During the rest of the year, some books may be sold at Costco stores from time to time, but not in a consistent manner, according to the executives