This is it. Today is the last day. My Borders is closing later today. Tomorrow is cleaning and fixture sales. By Thursday night it will all be over. Such a sad, sad end to almost 6 fantastic years of book selling, book loving, and some of the best people I've ever met. I just hit my 5 years with the company in July - just in time to get the news about the liquidation.
I posted some of my thoughts a few weeks ago. That post is HERE if you missed it.
Today I wanted to show a video slideshow I put together of some of our happy moments over the last few years.
To all of you that have shopped at Borders - thank you from the bottom of my heart.
To all of you that have supported my random little retail stories here - thank you just as much.
I've already got a pretty good lead at CVS and hope to be hired in the next week or two, so this may not be the end of Retail Wednesdays.
I'm so filled with sadness and love and mushiness so I'll just let the Muppets speak for me: