Metro Detroit shoppers flocked to Borders bookshops Friday to snag sales as the 40-year-old Ann Arbor bookseller began liquidating its stores.
Lines at many of Borders’ locations stretched to the back of the store as shoppers grabbed books and talked about how much they will miss the neighborhood chain that made reading a destination.
At the Beverly Hills location — one of 18 in Metro Detroit and 399 nationwide — customers were talking to each other about their sorrow over the bankrupt bookseller’s plight:
“I can’t believe this store is closing. This stinks.”
“By September, all the Borders stores will be closed. Isn’t that awful? It’s terrible, really.”
“I’m so sad.”
The liquidation sales and closing of the stores are expected to wrap up by the end of September.
A bankruptcy court judge in New York approved the liquidation process on Thursday, five months after Borders Group Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Also on Thursday, Birmingham, Ala.-based bookstore chain Books-A-Million said it wants to buy 30 of Borders’ store leases, but it is not known if any of Michigan’s 26 stores will be among them.
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