To this end, employees started procuring books for the coming semester one month ago, Sullivan says.
The store's three-year-old affiliation with Barnes & Noble has helped expedite the process, Sullivan says, because of the computerized database, tracking system and warehouses that the Coop can now access.
"We can now get a book within 24 to 48 hours of the time it is ordered," Sullivan says.
Barnes & Coop
The Coop's corporate general manager, Alan Powell, says that since the affiliation, the Coop has had to struggle with the widespread public assumption that it has been supplanted by a mega-corporation.
Other booksellers in the Square hold this assumption.
Lisa Burkin, advertising and promotions manager for WordsWorth, says the uniformity in selection among most chain bookstores worries her.
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