Powell's Books
11 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 10, 2020 by Emily Powell · said 49 times in 1 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Dec 10, 2020 positive
Emily Powell: Powell's will stay in Portland rather than expand nationally
“I believe books are a deeply personal product and a consumption process. And that means we need to know our community Pretty intimately, and I don't want to presume to take my business into, say, Austin, Texas, and know exactly what that community is going to …”
Dec 10, 2020 negative
Dec 10, 2020 positive
Powell: Powell's Books would not have survived without PPP funding
“First of all, if not for the PPP program, we wouldn't be here today, you know, fundamentally our loan that we received. So we shut down March. 15th, we received our loan in early May. If not for that loan, we wouldn't have been able to bring people back to wor…”
Dec 10, 2020
Dec 10, 2020
Powell: Powell's closed and laid off staff before Oregon mandated shutdowns
“The governor hadn't moved yet to close us down. I think a lot of folks thought we were responding to, you know, a demand, but no, we felt really the compulsion that we need to do what we have to protect Portland. And so we shut down in the middle of the day, w…”
Dec 10, 2020 negative
Powell's Books remains financially unsustainable after exhausting its PPP funds
“At this point, of course, those funds are exhausted, but we've been able to open the stores that's helping internet business has remained somewhat steady, but no, it's not sustainable. You know, that's the bottom line.”
Dec 10, 2020 bearish
Emily Powell: Amazon Marketplace will never help independent bookstores succeed
“And Amazon is never going to help us be successful in the long run. They're going to help Amazon be successful, and I don't believe that's good for Powell's. It's certainly not good for our community, so it wasn't something we had to put a lot of brain power b…”
Dec 10, 2020 negative
Dec 10, 2020 negative
Dec 10, 2020 negative
Emily Powell: Bookstore economics make opening in Manhattan or SF nearly impossible
“Most cities don't have a neighborhood that is an obvious fit. And I know that probably sounds strange. Think of so many wonderful places to be. But they have to have that morning to nighttime, you know, possibility for business. And then they have to have affo…”