Word: stores
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...Kramer’s family opened their store in the midst of the Great Depression on what is now John F. Kennedy Street, in the spot now occupied by Urban Outfitters. His father borrowed $300 from his grandfather to found the company, Kramer says...
...came into the business, I was 20; my father had died unexpectedly,” he says. “I was a BU student—they were not treated very well at bookstores. If you wanted a textbook, who else had it, apart from a college store...
...Harvard Book Store has succeeded where other local stores have failed: It has survived in a rapidly changing commercial environment, where superstores and the Internet have drawn customers away from local enterprises—particularly bookstores...
...Harvard Book Store has kept itself afloat, Kramer says, because its owners have been able to change with the times. Kramer points to the decision to sell paperback books in the 1960s as one such example...
...starting in the ’80s, the store began its celebrated speaker series—which has featured such authors as Salman Rushdie, New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell, and former Crimson Vice President Jennifer...