Word: coops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea for the site was born last February, when Schleier-Smith and Tseng found they'd both done some book shopping online, and bought the same textbook at Bigwords.com, for some $40 less than the Coop price...
...That's what made us realize that the Coop was ripping us off," Tseng said. "$40 off of a book is pretty hard to resist...
...discounts offered by online booksellers have hurt the Coop, but the store has stepped up its efforts to shorten checkout lines and to procure more used books, Coop General Manager David Sullivan said in April...
Sullivan stressed that the Coop's profits from textbooks are meager at best, calling the textbook section merely "a service" to students...
...years past, he says, there weren't alternatives to the Coop...