Barnes & Noble Set To Be Sold To Elliott Management For About $683M
Last year I wanted to buy Thinking in Bets (great book, btw). I was feeling impatient, so I looked it up on Barnes and Noble's website, and saw that a store where I was had it in stock.I went in to purchase it, and the price in store was a couple bucks higher than the listed price online. I asked the clerk about it, and he kind of shrugged and said he couldn't do anything about it.I walked out without the book and ordered it from Amazon on my phone in the parking lot.I still can't fathom the decision-making that led to that pricing strategy.