Students often assume that online retailers are the only ones who offer competitive prices on textbooks. We all know that perception to be false, but, unless we say otherwise, they might not. That’s why Melissa Stotts, manager at Lake Region State College Bookstore, decided it was time to speak up for her store.
By definition, being proactive means creating or controlling a situation by causing something to happen, rather than responding to it after the fact. And in today’s collegiate retail industry, it’s becoming a word synonymous with success.
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