Books-A-Million — Local services in Paducah

I purchase periodicals (magazines) on occasion. Those publications that pertain to my interest, but buying a subscription is not justified. Mainly when they have a particular article(s) in one issue, that I can't get anywhere else. Books-A-Million is the only store with a full stock of relatively low circulation magazines, within 60 miles of Paducah. Case in point; if you want an issue of one of these magazines, Books-A-Million is the only store available locally. All my other purchases of books are done with Amazon.

Usually, I purchase a couple of these magazines a year. Which requires a trip to Books-A-Million. I can predict the sales drill before I enter the door. Mind you, this is for a less than $10 purchase. It should be a simple task. But no. First I'm hit up for giving to whatever charity they're collecting for. Then the hard sell for the discount card. Finally they go through a menu on their screen at the register, which starts with asking you your phone number, and proceeds into more personal identity information. This is all for one magazine.

The clerks all look like art school drop-outs, and have the personality of robots. I generally end up going off on them as I leave the store. And they stare, like they can't figure out why.

It's like financing a car, just to buy a magazine. Uncalled for. and...

It's... Fine. They use to have a lot more LGBTQ+ books, and I could swear they once had an LGBTQ+ section, but now it's just a giant bible section with the "gay books" in it's BANNED section.

It's also impossible to find any LGBTQ+ romance books. If you look on their website for this location, it says in stock, but you go to that author's section in store and all the "gay books" are missing from that author, despite saying in stock. Anything else by that author is there.

Oh god and don't get me started on the bathrooms. Absolutely disgusting in there. Clean toilet paper rolls on the floor, not mounted on the wall, and there is pee on the floor next to it!

I don't know if they changed owners or what, but this place isn't as good as it use to be. Very Christian Religious focused now-a-days. I wish Paducah had more book stores to go to, I would love to support a...

I brought my teen daughter in to my a series she was interested in and purchase a Bible. She was unable to locate the series. She went to the counter and inquired about getting assistance. The young man behind the counter pointed and told her it was "over there and trying looking under the author." .My husband told the man it would be nice if he could help as 3 of us were unable to find this series.A girl behind the counter came out and said he was unable to assist since he was not clocked in and if we followed his instructions and looked we would see it. She grabs one of the books and says see. Very unprofessional, rude and an unpleasant ...extremely...