Barnes & Noble CEO On The Race For Space As Store Demand Heats Up

In a sign of just how much the retail world has changed, one of the biggest challenges facing Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt is competing for store space with other expansionist U.S. retailers.
It is one of the few things inhibiting the turnaround story at a retailer presumed dead when Amazon, e-commerce and the digitisation of books upended the sector, leaving a trail of vacated bookstores in its wake.
Now Daunt is tracking the very type of store locations his business was once exiting. But while the affable English boss of bookseller Barnes & Noble has recently been on the hunt for vacated Bed…
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