Open your 💜 and 🧠... I worked for this company for a long, LONG time. I believed in Putting Books in Hands & elevating/educating our community! I still believe that is the goal of the core leadership. I had to move on due to personal reasons... — read more 

Is anyone still buying over-priced books at this place? They never looked out for their employees and when they saw an easy opportunity, they threw them out like the stale old food they serve in their cafes. If you're still working for this failing... — read more 

Sometimes it is not clear to me whether the management could have prevented this ship from sinking? Every business has its own cycle - growth, prosperity, boom, and ultimately ends up with depression and dying. That is some of my layman’s... — read more 

The traffic in our store is so bad that I am sincerely surprised that it is still not closed. I'm racing against time to find a new job before it happens. The working conditions are really horrible. Once upon a time while people still loved BN... — read more 

A Phoenix, AZ location is closing. And it is the one that I formally worked at. Glee! Down with BN, Daunt, Riggio.

Sell, sell, sell, sell... It's become unbearable to listen to it every day. My superior seems to be completely detached from reality. She literally makes us sell titles that are impossible to sell because people just don’t want them. At first I... — read more 

I love that someone finally said this: Just like in 18. Fired over 3000! (5 positions eliminated. Mag., Bargain, receiving, head cashier, digital) 640 stores times 5 = 3200. NOT the 1800 they told the press. It’s all about spinning the truth to... — read more 

People hating the fact B&N is still surviving and employees are hanging on: hate on the company and the ones in the ivory tower. Give those who work the stores a break. We’re not a– kissers, we’re not brownnosers. We’re just hard working... — read more 

And I'm not talking about $200. So many employees are getting Covid at our stores. HR has been overwhelmed. Many of the stores have the worst ventilation systems and the virus has been spreading like crazy but no one is talking about this.

While the financially failing and poor decision making company prepares to go the way of Toys "R" Us and Lord & Taylor, why did it take so long to see all of the shady goings on? Why couldn't we see all of the disgusting actions of the management... — read more 

Is there anything you people will not complain about? Anything that this company can do that you'd actually say, okay I can get behind that? These bonuses are a good thing! That doesn't make the company good and it sure as hell does not undo all the... — read more 

We have one excellent assistant store manager who is remarkably intelligent and has been better at the job than anyone I have ever seen and yet, she has been shot down time after time after time and still hasn't been promoted to her own store. We all... — read more 

Someone said it well, the story of pandemic bonuses is just a distraction and I feel very weird as we talk about bonuses and at the same time expect to be laid off. I have a colleague who worked at another company and got a bonus the same week she... — read more 

Employees have submitted new reviews of B&N and management and the results is VERY BAD! Management only ever saw you as a statistic Bookseller (Former Employee Higher up store management only saw employees as statistics and memberships, not... — read more 

Heard a rumor that Daunt sent a letter today about paying out bonuses to employees. Anyone able to corroborate?

There are a lot of very negative comments here which is understandable given all the circumstances of working at BN. I just came to give support to my former colleagues who are still working here and to say how much a positive attitude meant to me... — read more 

Burlington clothing store taking over Barnes & Noble space in Ulster, NY as Barnes & Noble gives up, and closes its doors while other discount retail and other companies replace them.

My work day is filled with tension more than ever. I do the job I have to do with a lump in my throat because I expect some bad news every hour. Under such pressure, it is really hard to wait for the end of working hours. It’s hard for me to focus on... — read more 

I've heard directly from someone who works at the corporate office and they told me that the stores which have had difficulty making payroll will be on the chopping block first. If your store has had severe hours cut, you are in this category. ... — read more 

Forbes recently published an article on BN’s new strategy that involves empowering store managers to curate their shelves based on local tastes. Now, after almost seven years of free fall, it is a strategy that has been presented as “smart”. I was on... — read more 

Barnes & Noble continues to struggle with declining traffic, an aging customer and boring or irrelevant design,” Financial Health Rating (FHR) measures short-term resiliency and default risk using liquidity, leverage and earnings performance... — read more 

Looks like another thread was deleted because someone in Paramus didn’t like being called out on this forum. If you’re the same SM that was set straight on needing to grow up, it must have touched a nerve. The truth hurts, no matter how perfect you... — read more 

than to lay them off. Is that right? That is how I would describe the situation at BN now. I have a feeling that the gloomy atmosphere is further, artificially aggravated by superiors, so that the remaining workers can leave this company on their... — read more 

3 years ago today. Dumbest decision BN ever made.

B&N's reputation has been in the toilet since the Nook failure and has only gotten worse with every passing year. Add to that, sales are at an all-time low and look like they'll never rebound, customer reviews have been horrendous on Yelp and other... — read more 

I am already employed by another company but sometimes I visit this forum to see if there is any progress. Unfortunately, according to your posts, it doesn't look promising. It seems to me that the management has no desire to fix things here at... — read more 

Every day there is more bad news for B&N, sales are practically non-existent, they just cut more hours and here's more. Hope you saved money if you haven't found a new job by... — read more 

Everything just keeps keeping worse for the company. Sales could not be worse and they've cut hours to the max. I've been using the time to look for a real job. What is everyone else doing? And if you think online sales will save the company... — read more 

How are people paying their rent and bills? This company can't keep going much longer, does anyone have any inside info?

Shopping malls and retailers have been devastated this past year and mall owners are looking for any help they can find. Target Corp. has been in talks with Simon Property Group, New Plan Excel Realty Trust as well as other shopping mall owners... — read more 

Many B&N employees have no skills that will translate to the new real world, no updated resumes and B&N doesn’t look good on them, are too old (companies don’t want anyone over 35 now), lazy and too scared to look, no confidence, easier to stick... — read more 

The atmosphere in my store is such that I am surprised that the store is still not closed and that those of us left have not been fired long ago. Sales have never been worse. I don’t justify the manager’s behaviour at all, but I understand to some... — read more 

I just read Barnes & Noble in Independence will close this week, is this something new? Have they started closing individual stores once again or is this a part of the previously announced closings? Just to know how worried I should be in the coming... — read more 

We, as in the public, have not heard from him in months. The last public service announcement was a rerun of an article in the WSJ where Daunt repeated his pre-pandemic plans to lift BN out of the retail gutter. Didn't work did it? So what's his... — read more 

BARNES & NOBLE ready to CLOSE IT DOORS FOR GOOD! We all know that the corporate executives have a lot to do with the company's failure, but doesn't lower management take a big chunk of the blame too? What have your managers done to contribute to... — read more 

If things were so great in bookland, why do all of their managers and employees keep coming here? All indications are its doomed to close down any day now. Face the truth, people.

So why isn't anyone afraid of retribution? And why do we never hear about the company's real financial problems and plans for its inevitable demise? Is your store still pretending everything is lollipops and rainbows? I for one know the clock is... — read more 

Remember when we had morning meetings and the managers would tell us how sales were and what they want us to do? Now they won't say anything. I dare someone from corporate to come on here and tell us exactly what's going on for a change.

Ask your managers how long we have, ask them what corporate is telling them and post what they tell you here. Has anyone seen the emails from regional managers and corporate? I'm curious how good their lies are.

A Barnes and Noble store , in NY, on their Facebook page is advertising their “ Last Chance” sale. Is this company wide or just the stores that know they’re closing ?