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Leased: The store is on or near campus but is operated by an external company that has entered into a leasing arrangement with the college or university.Institutional: The store is owned and operated by the college or university.The most common types of college stores are:
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But hundreds are operated under lease contracts by Follett, Barnes & Noble College, or Nebraska Book Co. Many are still institutionally owned – that is, run by the school itself. and Canada and approximately 1,000 associate members who supply books and other products to college stores. And that NACS represents nearly 3,000 collegiate retailers in the U.S. That NACS was founded in 1923 in New York City and is currently headquartered in Oberlin, Ohio. Hopefully that will change today, as Laura Martinez Massie, Public Affairs Manager for NACS (the National Association of College Stores) has graciously agreed to answer all my questions.īy way of background, Laura tells me that NACS is the professional trade association representing the $10 billion collegiate retailing industry.
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( Or possibly much of anything about anything). Lots of people responded to my post with the observation that I don’t seem to know too much about college bookstores. A couple months ago I wrote a post called College Bookstores Should Not Have Cosmetics Counters.
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