The noble art of combining books with booze could be arriving at select New York Barnes & Noble locations.
The retail giant has been experiencing less-than-desirable sales numbers of late and what do you do when you’re feeling glum? Get to drinkin’ is what you do! Good E-Reader reports that the chain has applied for a beer and wine license from the New York State Liquor Authority. If everything’s hunky dory, customers will be able to buy booze from the store’s cafes and possibly get into fistfights over Jonathan Franzen. (Barnes & Noble didn’t put the Franzen fistfight thing on their application, mind you.)
Having alcoholic beverages on hand at a bookstore isn’t a new idea (loads of shops already do this), but it marks another way Barnes & Noble has tried to give their sales a boost. According to Good-E Reader, the company’s New Hartford location will be serving as a test location for this boozy B&N with the operating hours (currently) not subject to change once these adult beverages are introduced as a purchase option. So if you’re looking to have a 2am rager with your pals over the release of Melanie Benjamin’s The Swans of Fifth Avenue, you’ll have to do it at TGI Fridays as you normally would.
(via Good E-Reader)
