Buy Local folks! That is not a slogan it is a necessity. Buy from Amazon and steal sales tax revenues from the state of Vermont. That is not a real savings since you are in effect stealing from yourself. Until the politicos realize that sales tax ought to be collected on all transactions and that the Internet simply does not deserve "special tax treatment" to "protect it" then we can go ahead and continue to weaken our local communities and infrastructures by blindly believing we are "getting a deal". Think about that the next time you hit a pot hole!
Then recently our wonderful friends at Barnes&Noble got caught with some 50 illegal immigrants working in one of their distribution centers, which, since they use them, allows them to get a book for 5% less than Phoenix. Gee, you don't' suppose there is a relationship between low wages and artificially low prices do you?
And just today the wobbly folks at Borders announced layoffs of 250 employees. That must be on top of the 136 HQ layoffs in February and...the 742 layoffs announced on March 5th.Another blow for customer service at this fiscally troubled chain!
Hey, if you were worried about Gift Certificate redemption before, I'd hurry on down to Borders and cash mine in LOL
And yet, Phoenix Books has not let any one go, nor have we cut any hours and our customers have responded by keeping our sales at or above last years figures for January and February. Hooray!
Michael DeSanto
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