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[Mr_E_Squirrel]

Longtime Victoria bookseller hands business to staff

 

 

Jim Munro of Munro's Books in Victoria decided, at 85, that it was time for him to go. So he gave the business to four staff members.

What do you do when you’re 84 and own Canada’s most beautiful bookstore? And one that is thriving — no mean feat these days.

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http://www.thestar.c...s_to_staff.html

[jaylow]

Ogden point is a short stroll from downtown?
"The bookstore is a short stroll from where cruise ships dock in Victoria’s harbour"

[Mr Cook Street]

 

Longtime Victoria bookseller hands business to staff

 

 

Jim Munro of Munro's Books in Victoria decided, at 85, that it was time for him to go. So he gave the business to four staff members.

What do you do when you’re 84 and own Canada’s most beautiful bookstore? And one that is thriving — no mean feat these days.

.....

 

http://www.thestar.c...s_to_staff.html

 

 

What a great story. I feel like buying a book today!

[sdwright.vic]

^Depends on your personal definition of "stroll".

[vicernie]

Jim Monroe is one of the finest people I have ever met.

[VicHockeyFan]

Jim Monroe is one of the finest people I have ever met.

 

Who's that?

[LocalMom]

Alice Munro's husband. 

[HB]

they spell their surnames differently?

[KAS]

There is no 'e' in Munro. For neither the author, nor the bookseller.

[jonny]

Spelling corrections coming from History Buff???

 

Now I've seen it all on VV...

[HB]

I cun spell gud it jus the keys on ma phone r to smal

[vicernie]

MUNRO already.  still a great guy.  (I don't think he would have corrected me.)

[Southpaws]

Any rumours that there will be an Apple store opening in Victoria?

[G-Man]

I would highly doubt it.

[HB]

Buy uour apple while you are still in the flatlands
Mo pst

[aastra]

Victoria is conspicuously absent from the list of Canadian cities that do have Apple stores.

[gkz]

Victoria is the largest metropolitan area in Canada without an Apple store.

[VicHockeyFan]

Victoria is conspicuously absent from the list of Canadian cities that do have Apple stores.

 

No kidding, 29 stores in Canada, including 6 in Metro Vancouver.  Halifax has one.

 

https://www.apple.com/ca/retail/

[G-Man]

What is the benefit to having one over Future Shop? They have a lot of Apple stuff there.

[lanforod]

What is the benefit to having one over Future Shop? They have a lot of Apple stuff there.

I think the best reason for consumers is for quicker repairs. For Apple, shrug. I doubt their sales go up much if a store were to open in Uptown for example.