The Winnipeg store is only about twelve blocks away from Christian Week’s editorial offices, but Aaron Epp’s article is definitely a story worthy of a national audience. And so on Friday, Christian Week did a profile on Margo Smith, managing director of Hull’s Family Bookstore, a chain of two Manitoba stores and one Ontario location. Smith has managed Hull’s along with her sister-in-law Kathie ever since their family purchased the store in 1996.
A couple of key quotations from the story:
“We’re certainly holding our own,” Smith says. “If I had to define how [2010] went for us, I would call it flat, and flat is the new up when it comes to certain kinds of retail, particularly bookselling.”
Flat is the new up. I love it. And…
“I do think there’s room in the marketplace for independent specialty retailers like us,” she says. “I believe our cities will be the poorer without a local Christian bookstore, and I’ve witnessed countless examples of the good that happens in them.
Click here to read the entire article at Christian Week.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Image may be NSFW.Clik here to view.
