The Bookery Nook Blog: Keep Wal-Mart Out Of North Denver

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Keep Wal-Mart Out Of North Denver

Say it isn't so! North Denver is a vibrant, ecclectic, diverse, artistic, unique, and wonderful community; why in the world would someone want to come in and ruin it?

The North Denver Tribune ran an article yesterday saying that a 150,000 square-foot Wal-Mart Supercenter was going to be built in the town of Lakeside (population: 20!); this will have a devastating impact on the entire north Denver community.

Please join our Facebook Group page "Keep Wal-Mart Out Of North Denver" - let's put our heads together and figure out a way to keep this from happening.

Thanks!
Shannon

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Shannon & Gary Piserchio

What it's like to run a bookshop...

It's remembering the names of our customers (four-legged and two-legged) and greeting them by name, researching books for folks who aren't sure of titles or authors (or either), paying the bills, researching and buying new books and other inventory, creating newsletters, Tweeting, Facebooking, blogging, checking emails, keeping the website semi-current, keeping the spines perfectly straight on the shelves, dusting, dusting, dusting, petting lots of dogs, cleaning up half-eaten dog biscuits and puddles of drool (we love dogs, so it doesn't bother us a bit), cleaning up cheerios and raisins and gum that have been ground into the carpets, scrubbing the toilet, unplugging the toilet (not our favorite thing to to) and making sure there's plenty of toilet paper available, dealing with an old and leaky roof, putting displays together and re-setting them over and over again, networking with the other business owners on the street, answering phone calls, answering questions ("No, we're not a library."), debating the Kindle, debating the economy, debating "Edgar Sawtelle", promoting the importance of supporting local indies, processing new inventory, shelving new inventory, arranging, re-arranging, and re-arranging some more, scheduling events, planning for upcoming holidays, making time for impromptu meetings with book and sideline reps, authors and artists.

Mostly, it's being a part of a community - and a darn cool one at that.

It's who we are.
It's what we do.
It's what we love!