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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not enough kids in upper NW DC to support a toy store. They can't even fill their schools there. That's why they need to have such a high number of out of bounds students at Wilson and Deal and Janney etc. [/quote]

There are plenty of kids to fill Janney, Deal, and Wilson, it's just that many if not most of them are going to private schools instead.

Lack of kids isn't what closed Sullivan's, people are just getting their toys elsewhere, like online where it's cheaper and arrives at your door in hours. It's tough to compete against that kind of convenience.  [/quote]

I agree that people got lazy, but an effort could be made to save Sullivan's. People make a pointed effort to shop at Politics and Prose, because they don't want to wake up and see a void there. We need to save Sullivan's. And it doesn't sound like AU tapped into that, or they could totally have [b]delegated some students to make a student project around saving Sullivan's[/b]. Zero imagination.[/quote]

This is not how capitalism works. The "Amazon effect" is pretty likely the main reason for a place like Sullivan's go out of business. Politics and Prose is a very different business model than a toy store.[/quote]

It's a book store! The MOST vulnerable to "the Amazon effect"..if the hood could save P and P, we could easily "save" Sullivan's.[/quote]

But P&P's business model has changed substantially -- they don't just sell books, they also do a ton of events and have a full restaurant in the basement. THAT sort of thing is Amazon-proof, because you can't go see a book talk and then get a cup of coffee or a glass of wine afterwards without actually going to the store. Sullivan's, as much as my kids and I love it, really is just a place to browse and buy stuff -- which you can do online, even if it's a less satisfying version of the experience.

I'd also heard from Sullivan's that they had an additional problem recently, which is that wholesalers and manufacturers were making it harder for them to get specific products -- they only wanted to sell them at bigger scale to larger stores or chains. Which, on top of the rent, the pandemic, and the competition from the web, is yet another factor that probably did them in.[/quote]

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