There was a mix of gloom and opportunism at the Old Town Borders this morning, like you were bidding
farewell to a friend who’d died but, before you left, you scoured his closet to see if there was anything in there you wanted. Today marked the first day of a “liquidation” period that’s likely to last through September, somebody said, and plenty of customers were in the store to help clean it out.
The cafe was closed already. But biographies and CDs/DVDs were 20 percent off, young adult books were 10 percent off, and you could pick up magazines for a 40 percent discount. (What the hell; I sprang for the new Texas Monthly.) An enterprising FrontBurnervian who wandered into the Old Town location sent along this photo, which pretty well summed things up.
