Barnes & Noble CEO wants to humanize the shopping experience
July 22, 2019
James Daunt has been given the task of making Barnes & Noble viable again. The executive, who spent much of his career managing an independent book store business with six locations in London, is looking inject some of the warmth and humanity from small store environments into the culture of Barnes & Noble’s bigger box stores.
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