de lauers closing
first cody's now de lauers
well, this comes as no surprise to me. I've been buying l'equipe at de lauers for years, or trying to.
it used to be that l'equipe would even be sold out during the tour de france, then they just stopped carrying it.
"come back in a few days"
thanks for the advice, I would take bart to downtown oakland just to get copies during the tour, and to be told to come back multiple times to give a story money is just retarded. the newspaper never showed up.
the last time I went in before the tour and asked if they could arrange to get some copies and they said no.
lets see: you sell foreign newspapers. someone comes in asking for one that you used to carry and tells you they will buy them every day for the next month and you say no. well no wonder you went out of business, you were actively turning it away.
I'm not suggesting that I single handedly could save the institution, but it seems to indicate that the problem may be something other than the internet.
despite this, I'm still sad to see it go. there's not a lot of real culture left in downtown oakland, and there's even less now.
well, this comes as no surprise to me. I've been buying l'equipe at de lauers for years, or trying to.
it used to be that l'equipe would even be sold out during the tour de france, then they just stopped carrying it.
"come back in a few days"
thanks for the advice, I would take bart to downtown oakland just to get copies during the tour, and to be told to come back multiple times to give a story money is just retarded. the newspaper never showed up.
the last time I went in before the tour and asked if they could arrange to get some copies and they said no.
lets see: you sell foreign newspapers. someone comes in asking for one that you used to carry and tells you they will buy them every day for the next month and you say no. well no wonder you went out of business, you were actively turning it away.
I'm not suggesting that I single handedly could save the institution, but it seems to indicate that the problem may be something other than the internet.
despite this, I'm still sad to see it go. there's not a lot of real culture left in downtown oakland, and there's even less now.
posted by aram shumavon at 8:45 AM
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This news saddened me; I have not witnessed the decline of De Lauers first-hand, but had stopped in the shop on occasion and was always overwhelmed with the anachronistic abundance of paper. It was also the only place that carried the very matter-of-fact postcards of Oakland. Oakland! Downtown Oakland postcards!
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