So, I'm wondering about Family Christian Bookstores...

[The Night Owl]

Family Christian Bookstores are all over the place in my town. The one I live near seems to always be devoid of shoppers when I pass it on the way to the mall. I have a difficult time believing that the store sells enough books to pay the rent and yet it remains open. What gives?

[rcrush]

1. Meth Labs.

All of em!

[Taverner]

3. LOL

[The Night Owl]

4. Ah, yes...

Christian Meth.

:rofl:

[Greenpeach]

9. Methodists? n/t

[Taverner]

2. Often Christian Bookstores having problems go and beg for money from their churches

[Duer 157099]

7. Churches beg for money = santified; poor people beg = welfare

just does not compute

[jobycom]

5. They sell to churches and organizations a lot.

They do a lot of bulk sales for churches, religious organizations, religious schools, and the like. Sunday school material, special events materials, gift Bibles, and the like. Bible school season is big for them. Think of all the religious paraphanelia you see in doctors' offices, waiting rooms... No shortage of people willing to shell out money for the Lord's papers.

[frebrd]

10. All the religious paraphernalia in doctors' offices.......

has driven me away from more than one doctor.

[jobycom]

11. I don't usually care about that. It could just be the doctor's opinion of his clients, or

it could even be religious groups just dropping stuff off. They do that in the waiting room where I work, too.

I once dropped a doc because he went on a rant about how all the black people had taken over a city we both knew and how that had driven crime up and ruined it for "everyone" (by which he meant, white people). Sadly, he was a good doctor. :(

[MADem]

6. Fronts for drug sales, or prostitution rings?

"Why yes, I've got your order of 'My Life in Ministry' right in the back, here--let me fetch it for you and wrap it up! It's a rare book, out of print--will that be cash or charge?"

Or: "Oh dear, that shipment of religious tracts hasn't arrived yet. How about I send a salesgirl over to your hotel to deliver it to you, say, around nine PM?"

[LiberalFighter]

8. I couldn't see a church buying their material from a local store.

It was my understanding at least many years ago that they would buy their material from publishing houses that catered specifically to their beliefs. They would get better deals buying in bulk directly instead of using a middle man.