Chapter's was dumb dumb dumb in all of this. Many outlets only ordered enough to cover pre-orders it seems. They could have ordered more but seem to have assumed everyone who wanted the book had it pre-ordered. They lost a bunch of business because of it on the weekend. I was in Chapter's on Sunday where I was going to pick it up, as I looked for other books for no more than a 5-10 minutes atleast 10 other people asked staff where the heck it was. I simply went over to Atlantic Superstore where they had boxes of the book at the end of every aisle. They had boxes and boxes in the back as well from what the staff were saying.
Not sure what happened with some Chapters this around. I never had any problems getting Order of the Phoenix and Half Blood Prince as every Chapters had mountains and mountains of them when they came out. In fact pre-order people felt rather stupid waiting in the huge pre-order line while everyone else walked in, grabbed the book and paid for it within a minute or two. Major screw ups at some Chapters outlets this time around.
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