Wynnewood Borders to Close, Leaving Behind 40 Jobs, Vacant Anchor Store

They’ve been arriving fast and furious in the email inboxes of Borders Rewards card holders for most of 2011—daily coupons and two-for-one deals, sales on New York Times bestsellers, 50 percent off weekend specials, clearance blow-outs.

Since February, when and closed some 200 other stores nationwide, many of the local regulars at the might have felt Monday’s liquidation news coming, but didn’t want to think about it much.

“Oh no,” said a woman browsing the new paperbacks, her voice a combination of sadness and anger. “Next there’ll be no bookstores,” said the woman, who did not wish to give her name. “I can walk here from my house,” she added, abruptly putting down a nonfiction trade bestseller, and briskly walking away.

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