Everything was so fucking expensive. They also put in those refrigerators where it has the ads and they're just as fucking awful and weird as the pictures would have you believe. Also, the big cctv showing you as you go down the aisle and check out are fucked. At self check out you can no longer mute it so it has to talk to you. Finally, they hired security to stand at the entrance of the store which is gross. edit: Some stuff was also locked in a cabinet
The devil is in that store. I'm so fucking pissed.
I'm firmly of the option that bookstores should always be some variation on wood tones/furnishing, warm lighting and if possible, a darker shade of carpet.
This infiltration of sterile white into every corner of retail is a sickness.
The only thing worse than sterile white is new apartment gray
It's it just retail. Even homes are like that too now. A friend of mine bought a house with beautiful wood paneling in the kitchen, and the FIRST thing he did was paint that all white.