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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 2662782" data-attributes="member: 3649">I think because the average bookstore, especially in a mall, is not as well supervised as most gaming stores I've been in. The local B&N doesn't have a theft detection system in place and more often than not there's no-one at the front counter. Not that it would matter a great deal, given how things are arranged. Many is the time that, if I had been so minded, I could have walked out with an armload and no-one would have stopped me. It may depend on the area, too. Our local B&N, as oppossed to the Books-a-Millions, is located in a shopping area that is right on the edge of 'the wrong side of the tracks'. They are open later than anything else in the area save the upscale restaurants. That made them the place to hang out for all the ratty lower-middle-class teenagers who move in packs and like to sit outside, smoke and all share the one coffee they bought inside. The people I usually see at the gaming section are older teen/young college age and more often than not look like the kind of people I'd cross the street to avoid. Dunno what specifically it is about the sections, though.</blockquote>