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| - I remember when this Chapters first opened, 15 or so years ago. I was very young, and showed up here with my aunt a week after this place opened, and on her recommendation. The concept of a bookstore where you could just show up and sit in the aisles or at the windowsill reading books or magazines (while drinking coffee, even) was bizarre to me - and frankly, it still is.
I'm not even sure this location really does that all that much anymore. Most of the time, I see people loitering around the magazine section (which is next to the in-house Starbucks, and is understandable), and the rest of the store has cultivated more of an upscale "browse and go" kind of atmosphere.
It almost seems like a bit of a contradiction, considering how close this place is to the City Centre bus terminal across the street, but the riff-raff seems to head for the Starbucks instead, and the rest of the store is very quiet and clean.
Within the locations I've visited in the GTA, this is my most-frequented. I came here after attending the Mississauga Rotary Ribfest in search of a book (the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", if you must know), and was in and out in a breeze. Although I initially had some trouble finding the book (it seems there's a bit of overlap with certain aisles in the fiction section, and some specialty/deluxe edition books don't have many copies available), I was able to search and find what I needed very fast afterwards. The staff were also particularly friendly, which has always been a high point of this location.
I come here often, and I'll be back again. Recommended.
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