Cody’s Books has called it quits for real this time, shutting down its remaining store on Shattuck Avenue. Citing lagging sales, Cody’s closed its doors on Friday, June 20. A while back, the flagship store on Telegraph Avenue was closed down; more recently, the store on Fourth Street jumped to Shattuck after a large rent increase. The branches in San Francisco have also been closed.
The Chron had more information on the details of the closing:
Andy Ross, who owned the store from 1977 until mid-2006, when he sold it to (Hiroshi) Kagawa, said about last week’s closing, “it’s no mystery - what’s happened to Cody’s is what has happened to independent stores for many years. People are going somewhere else (for books.) A lot of people like the allure of the Internet or chain stores. And a lot of people don’t read.”
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Danica Li on Saturday, February 23, 2008 10:30 pm
Keeping our fingers crossed.
Take heed, oh readers, for the latest exciting episode in the Cody’s Books drama has unfolded. The bookstore’s location on Fourth Street closes in a few weeks, moves, and reopens again at a new site. At the end of March, the retailer flings open its doors to a bigger, better clientèle–and what human masses are bigger or better than the ones that cycle day-in and day-out through the downtown Berkeley BART station, situated but across the street from Cody’s new, prospective location?
That’s right–the ghost of Eddie Bauer will linger no longer. To the delight of book lovers and pavement loiterers alike, the new Cody’s opens on the corner of Allston Way and Shattuck Avenue on Mar. 24. Citing “skyrocketing rents” on Fourth Street–the world manages not to slide off its axis in collective shock–Cody’s store managers hope that revenues and foot traffic will benefit from Berkeley’s swingin’ downtown nightlife. Oxymoronic? Nah.
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