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...bookselling business in Harvard Square has always been competitive. Smaller neighborhood stores like Grolier Poetry Bookshop, the Harvard Book Store, Schoenhof's Foreign Books and WordsWorth have coexisted with the mammoth Coop by hiring personable and knowledgeable clerks and by carving out a niche in the Square's unique market...
...Grolier Poetry Bookshop on Plympton Street, forone, has not reaped any rewards from the 21percent decrease...
...Grolier's owner, Louisa Solano, spends her dayswavering between making it clear to would-bethieves that they are under surveillance andkeeping her loyal customers from feeling shedistrusts them...
...Grolier was able to stay afloat thanks to afundraiser organized by a friend, but Solano saysif the shoplifting trend continues, her store mayclose its doors...
...blames theft, but says the amount involvedin this case could not have occurred throughsimple everyday theft, even if it were as seriousas that at Grolier...