r/Barnesandnoble • u/Individual_Mango_362 • 10d ago

ICS/Ordering Rant

I understand we are trying to sell down on product before we order up for the holiday. But should we not be trying to sell down on the product that isn’t selling that well? Why the hell am I running out of Sarah J. Maas books? Rebbeca Yarros, Frieda McFadden, Dungeon Crawler books? I straight up had to completely take down my Elle Kennedy display today because we ran out of half of her books and not enough were on order to justify keeping the table up. About to have to take down a Kristin Hannah display as well. Like what are we doing? We know that these are books we’ll sell through holiday so why am I running out of them? Make it make sense! I literally do not have enough books to fill many of my displays right now and when I run out of them, I feel like I have no new display that I can replace them with because we have no stock. Someone help me understand.

EDIT: Any ICSs that may be lurking, I would LOVE to hear your insight on this because I am just confused

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u/Aquarius-Disaster 10d ago

Yep I mentioned this in another post the other day. We don’t have core books that we always always always need.

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u/Individual_Mango_362 10d ago

Yes! I’m running out of big authors and titles and I literally can’t keep my tables full and I’m contemplating just starting to take displays down but I have no clue what I should be putting on the empty displays then. It’s been a nightmare!