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...addition to donating a portion of their proceeds, Redline Executives claimed to have saved customers more than $10,000 over the Coop??s prices, and had approximately 25,000 page views at their website, redlinetextbooks.com...
...There are huge efficiency gains in our business model compared to the Coop??s,” Yagan said. “I think that more and more people are going to be asking themselves when they think about buying a textbook at the Coop, ‘Why am I paying 20 or 30 extra bucks to wait in line...
Teachers at the center bring children to play there when weather permits. Jennifer Ering, Bigelow Coop??s assistant director, regularly takes groups of children to the playground and says she worries that the many tourists walking through Cambridge Common get the wrong impression of the city...
Some customers are pleased with the additional merchandise. Former Cantabridigan Anna Ruiz calls the Coop??s selection, “pretty good. Much better than when I left, four years ago.” But the mountains of hoodies and scarves left others unimpressed. “My parents have bought themselves T-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, and crap. But they didn’t have goddamn soccer socks,” says Brandon Geller ’08. Some believe that the expansion signals a cheapening of Harvard. “I don’t approve...
...meantime, Redline Textbooks is a welcome new addition to the textbook market. Cheaper, quicker and more convenient than The Coop??and all from a room in Currier—it makes one wonder why The Coop hasn’t followed suit in similar ways to cut down on costs for students. Hopefully, as more companies like Redline start up, seizing the advantage of arbitrage, publishing companies will be forced to lower prices to compete. When buying books this fall, students must remember that as a collective group, consumers do retain some power on their own to force...