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The incredible shrinking campus?
Amid concerns CSU Stanislaus is retreating from its Stockton Center, the university announced it is scaling the satellite campus’s bookstore back almost to the point of closure.
Barnes and Noble ran the store, and it was losing money, said CSUS spokesperson Eve Hightower.
The store ran in the red even when the campus was at peak enrollment in 2007. Last year, the store cost B&N $13,400. This year, it has cost $31,400, Hightowre said.
“B&N has been trying different things for a while hoping to turn a profit to no avail,” Hightower writes. “It has found textbook sales fall off after the first week. For the rest of the term, sales mostly consist of candy, snacks and other incidentals that amount to about $100 a day. I guess that wasn’t even enough to afford the B&N employee’s salary and benefits.”
B&N will open the store only for the first and last weeks of the term, Hightower said.