Borders Hilo Closing

[DaVinci]

For all that you guys have projected onto Borders, it is and always will remain a corporation. A typical "big box." And they are playing the corporate game. So is Walgreens. Neither corporation is doing it for you. They are in this to make mula. Period. End of sentence. If you imagined that the Borders in Hilo was some kind of actual piazza, or community bonding experience... then I would advise you to get out more. Find a real community to bond with. Borders closed because it cannot compete in the capitalist marketplace in which it was designed to compete. It was outflanked by Amazon and others. Walgreens found an opportunity and exploited it. Good for them. Don't make this thing into something romantic. It was, is, and will be all about capitalism. If you want to read good books, all you need is the words, in the proper order. You don't need the smell, you don't need the leather binding, you don't need the coffee and you don't need the A/C. Give me Aristophanes written in the sand and I'd be just as happy. Or Plato scribbled on cocktail napkins. Borders is closing. So long! Boo hoo. Get logged onto Amazon and get over yourselves...