…and so does the rest of Bridgeport Village (with a few exceptions) but more on that on Mondays broad/podcast. If you were following my hellaciously torturous tweets on Friday you’d know that I was doing a solid for someone and found myself bored out of my fucking pea-sized brain for a couple of hours at Bridgeport. Normally not a big deal really but I didn’t realize at the time that it was spring break. What to do? What to do? Head to Borders Books ‘n Music of course! After all, I was hoping to avoid the endless sea of children and let’s face it, kids don’t read anymore anyway.
So let’s start with the book selection. The Borders at Bridgeport Village is no slouch in this area and I even found a few things that I wanted. Did I buy them? No, but I snapped some iPhone photos of them so that I could go home later and buy them for my Sony eBook Reader thing. So thanks Borders, you score a point there – you ain’t Powell’s but that’s not even a fair comparison.
No, the real tragedy of Borders is the “& Music” part. Are there really people out there paying the full MSRP for CD’s anymore? If so, who are these people? I passed racks upon racks of CD’s priced at around $20. $20!! For a fuckin’ CD? I hate to say this (and I hate the store) but there’s a Best Buy not more than a mile away that has ten times the selection for half the price. And the movies? DVD’s for upward of $30 and those shitball Blu-Ray things that no one buys for $39.95. It’s no surprise that the dust on these things is as thick as my cock – NO ONE IS BUYING THEM. Expensive retail, not exactly worth getting my nuts all bound up over. No, it wasn’t until I made a “purchase” at the built-in Seattle’s Best Coffee that I flipped my fucking lid baby, totally flipped my fucking lid.
I just wanted a large 4 shot mocha. What I ended up with tasted like boiling burnt popcorn. Last time I checked (and I check at least once every day) a “mocha” had chocolate in it. Not this one, there’s no fucking way. It was brown-ish, sure, but it tasted more like dirty dishwater than anything else. And what’s with the SBC there anyway? Why is SBC trying to get me to sign up for a Borders Rewards Card? What’s rewarding about this place? Fucking nothing. In fact, I already have one but I don’t want to admit it. I get shit in my inbox almost daily with “Borders Savings” – yeah right – Borders Savings just means that they’ve slashed the prices on a few items so that they now cost everyone else’s regular price. Did she stop with just one Borders Rewards inquiry? Oh hell no, she asked me three times – practically badgering me into it. What do you get if you sell me one honey? Do they send you to Barista school to learn how to make fucking coffee if you sell enough of them? God knows you need it.
Nope. Chalk me up for another “store I will never fucking walk into again” – it can sit on that list right next to Best Buy. Fuck Borders.
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dont know which is worse between borders and b&n but they both suck..why anyone would go to either place instead of powell’s is beyond me though anyway. i cant do electronic books myself but i dont think borders could even keep up with my reading. their movie department is a joke though no doubt. and sbc dude? yuckers!!! got to be stumptown!!
Stumptown Coffee blows. Over rated by miles. Call me a corporate coffee whore but I still prefer Tully’s.
O.k. “corporate coffee whore”. Happy?
wow, what stores do you like since you are so pissed off at everything you encounter? I find it ironic that you spout off about the Borders Rewards card being pushed yet somehow you “have their emails in your inbox almost each day” – guess what – unless Borders has turned into a psychic entity that means you voluntarily gave them your e-addy at some point. So you must not hate them that much. And why the heck would you expect quality coffeee (much less a fancy one) to be sold at a bookstore of all places? Do you hang around the gas station complaining about the quality and price of their merchandise as well?
Like I said, at one time I shopped there quite frequently so yes, I’m already a card carrying member of the elite and proud Borders Secret Bookshopper Society. It would seem that, after the Borders news yesterday, I’m not alone and they’re having a very difficult time selling their wares at a 30% markup.
A better question: Why the heck would you come to a blog with the word “sucks” in the title and expect to find me clicking my heels together in happy sunshine abandon about anything that I liked?
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect a $5 coffee drink to taste better than gas station piss water. Your comparison doesn’t make sense there Frostypants.
You asked for four shots of mocha and were surprised when it tasted burnt? News flash for ya: espresso is BITTER, and four shots of espresso in ANYTHING will kill the flavor. Switch to decaf – sounds like you may benefit from a decrease in stimulants.