Books-A-Million — Local services in Alexandria

I LOVE books. I enjoy reading and learning. The staff have been nice. But they seem understaffed. The person who makes the coffees usually comes from another side of the store. There is one person who seems as though he/she doesn't want to make coffees. I felt as though I was bothering this person when I wanted to order a coffee. That may be because the staff are wearing more than one hat with them being understaffed. I don't know. Maybe the coffee maker has always been running around doing other jobs within B-A-M. And maybe they're understaffed because they can't find people that want to work. I don't know. But they should have someone who stays at Joe's Mugs. That way, people who walk in to order a coffee aren't standing there waiting, looking around wondering if it's even...

Clean, organized, quiet. I also really appreciate some of the associates! Others can be... unhelpful. If you find one of those, disregard & search out another one. There ARE cheerful workers in the place! I still enjoy this store so much, but I don't get the opportunity to shop here often due to closing time. When they finally reopened, I was so happy to see the lights on! I was highly disappointed to learn they close at 8:PM, especially when I most often only have time to shop here after dinner, usually 7:PM. It used to be the last stop before home on date nights. Of course, an hour seems like plenty of time, until you add in the wait at the coffee bar & managing to have a bit of time to read through books while deciding on purchases. I'd love to see this location open...

Book a million... Clean, lots of other item a coffee shops, gifts & magazines l normally leave with 4 to 6 books .. today I didn't find but 1. Thank goodness

So My 1 gripe is as I was checking out the clerk states to me.. " Our company has gone "Green".. So we no longer give bags with our sales... You can buy one low price of.. $1.59..."

That's just great!.. your buisness is not Green... its business where you sell books... all made of paper, or plastic, toys, gifts.. and you decide that not offering bags to carry the item you sell is GOING GREEN? by not offer bag's to carry books out of your store. is not GOING GREEN....

Thats fine togo green, but that is an individual decision for those clients to decide all your doing is selling ...