McNally Robinson Booksellers - Saskatoon

This may be the most over-priced bookstore on earth. The competition from Indigo has brought prices down a bit. Prices are generally at least 1/3 higher than other places. They have done a wonderful job of making people feel they are cultured by spending far too much for the same books available elsewhere. They do not have a particularly impressive collection; they feature standard new releases and best sellers. This store is all style and no substance.

It is amazing how people feel this price-gouging charade is performing some public service to illiterate prairie folk. The owners of this store rake in money in a way that “evil” big corporations like Amazon or Chapters Indigo can only dream of. And you know what? Mcnally is a chain too with stores in other cities.

Anyway, enjoy your smug sense of pretentious purpose while shopping at an over-priced chain store, I’ll keep my money.

P.S.
Before anyone says the prices are because of the support they give local writers, I will add that those promotions cost them nothing. The authors are more than happy to promote their own books. And the extra copies they sell (with the MR 50% markup) are small compared with the extra profit the store makes.