If you purchase books at Costco, starting in January you’re going to have to look elsewhere.
According to a report from The New York Times, Costco plans to stop selling books on a regular basis.
Although the warehouse club has yet to make an announcement, several publishing executives shared the news with The New York Times.
The executives, who chose to remain anonymous, claimed the change would take effect in January when Costco would stop stocking books on a regular basis and instead only sell them during the holiday period from September through December.
The company plans to drastically reduce the number of books they sell throughout the year, only stocking books sporadically during the remaining eight months.
The change has reported already taken place in Costcos located in Hawaii and Alaska.
The move away from books is allegedly related to the number of man hours required to maintain the book section.
Unlike most products at Costco which can be rolled out on a pallet and left for customers, books must be laid out by hand. New inventory comes in every week and books that don’t sell must be returned, thus creating more labor.
Many online seemed disappointed with the news.
“I understand perhaps not selling adult books. But to me stopping selling kids books would be like cancelling the hotdog in the food court,” someone on Reddit wrote.
“I’m really sad about that. I’ve been getting some really good titles recently from there, especially since they totally beat Barnes and Noble and Target on pricing. That’s just a damn shame.”
“The biggest miss will be the kids books.”
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