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Q: Why aren't people penalized for sitting and reading in bookstores?

I've seen people in bookstores lying down and (I assume) spending hours on end reading through whatever books interested them.

 

Is it that staff are overwhelmed, or it just doesn't fall in their job description to tell people not to lie down and read?

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Bookstores are often called "libraries." People do use them to sit and read for hours on end, especially in the summer when they are air conditioned.

 

But why should the business turn their potential customers out? It would only hurt them in the long run. 

derek:

Your comment about "potential customers" is strange. In your world everyone who comes into your business and uses your product without paying is a potential customer. If so, I will take a walk to the nearest Apple store and nab myself a computer, use it for free under the guise of a "potential customer". Great!

And please, don't think for a moment that Chinese businesses give a rat's ass about repeat customers.

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At apple stores they do let you test the products. Not sure you are making your point.

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derek:

My point was clear. 

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A story was published recently how a 24hr bookstore had to hire guards as people used it as a place to crash during the night, homeless people using it for shelter and so on.

 

 

 

 

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  do u know how to spell 'mooch' ?

 

I know u do, and I know u know that is what they are doing.  A person can call a Cat a Dog, but it is still a Cat....

 

    frown

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It's the same principle as in restaurants. People waltz in and take a seat with no repercussions. They even are so brazen as to bring their own food too. We have all seen it. The workers are paid to do 1 job and that doesn't include telling people to leave or give their seat to a paying customer. Mindboggling!

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3 reasons, no one has any business sense in this country. 

the whole face BS gaining face by not letting others lose face

third no one pays attention to anything in this country.

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It is the same in America. Go into a bookstore in America and you'll see people reading books they haven't bought yet. Hey, if you don't read it first, how do you know that you'll like it?

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