The incidents also resulted in a groundswell of support for Dear and her bookstore.ĭear recounted on social media that the first of the notes arrived the day after she opened the store on August 1, 2017, saying, "Get out, we do not want your kind here." Similar messages arrived in the years since, but on November 20, e-mails with racial slurs began arriving 15 minutes apart and were followed by a phone call to the store that threatened her life.
She contacted the police, who have made an arrest, NBC News reported. Since opening the Little Boho Bookshop in Bayonne, N.J., three years ago, owner Sandra Dear, who is Black, has received threatening racist e-mails, letters and phone calls that escalated last month. Daunt added: "As long as the pandemic doesn't do something completely horrendous to us, we will be profitable."
If December sales are strong, B&N sales for 2020 will be down about 20% compared to 2019. He also laid off about a third of those who oversaw groups of regional stores and replaced them with more locally based staffers who look after just a handful of stores." The cuts include "about half of its corporate staff in New York, or roughly 125 people," among them "10 of the chain's 25 corporate buyers.
Then you teach and encourage them and, in time, everybody becomes better."Ībout the layoffs, the Journal said that B&N "in recent months laid off about 5,000 employees, the majority of whom worked part time," and now employs "about 16,500 people, down from 24,000 in April 2019," four months before Daunt became CEO following Elliott Management's purchase of the company. A significant number of your stores will become worse, not better. A Wall Street Journal article, " Barnes & Noble's New Boss Tries to Save the Chain-and Traditional Bookselling," profiles CEO James Daunt and outlines some of his strategies for revamping B&N, including empowering store managers to make more buying decisions, particularly on reorders having more faceouts installing small round tables in the fronts of stores in place of large square or rectangular tables-and cutting a lot of staff.Ĭoncerning the buying changes, Daunt said, "As you let the stores diverge, a quarter will be brilliant and a quarter will be absolutely terrible.
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