So, how do other stores deal with the face out/spine out issue?įor a poetry book or a computer manual, the cover design will be of minimal importance – but if looking for a book on watercolour painting, the shopper will probably be searching for a cover showing a painting style that attracts them. I told him that’s why employees are there, to help folks find books, just like I had with the new Jackie Kennedy book.
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He said he hated looking for books all in a row on the shelf. “They even have this problem at Barnes and Noble.” I know! It’s a space issue, not a bookcase one. If I have 30,000 books now and I faced them all out, without culling the stock I would need to have a 4,000 square foot store, or get rid of two thirds of my inventory. I even showed him how many more books can fit on shelf spine out (20) versus the seven faceouts on a nearby shelf. If I faced out all my books two things would happen: I’d need to be in a store three times as large, or my stock would be cut in half and then people would say I had no depth to my inventory. I told him, nicely, that it wasn’t the bookcase that was causing the problem - it was just a space issue. “You just need new shelving.” He kept saying over and over. I explained that the face out, while lovely and ultimately, ideal, is not practical for space reasons. He even did a little demonstration of how he found one book, but had to ask for help for the other, even though it was eye level, but spine out. Then they’d be easier to see.” He suggested this like it would be a revelation to me.
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After I had rung up his $89 of books - Dick Cheney and the new Jackie Kennedy (if only everyone could be so bipartisan) - and he was leaving, he called me over to the front door.
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I was working alone in the store on Sunday, having a really great day, when a customer came in and challenged me on how to shelve books.