LETTER: Fizzed out or poured out?

To the editor:

I was always under the impression that the bookstore was the bad guy with its inability to give very good prices on certain books. I do understand that those prices are relatively set, they can’t very well change them, but that’s besides the point. The bookstore was trying to do something to help the students that shop there. It was trying to give them something for cheap in a store where the books weren’t always the best deals. They truly wanted to help us as students, not as consumers.

They could have easily hiked the price up to match what the monopolistic Food and Dining Services were charging, but instead, they chose to do away with it because they refused to treat the students in such a manner.

I find it repulsive how the Food and Dining Services don’t seem to give students very good deals on things. I personally would love to have super-affordable food and drink that I could purchase daily instead of having to pack a lunch knowing that I don’t have enough to get the amount of food that will last me through the day. What the Food and Dining Services should really be looking at is customer satisfaction – like the bookstore was striving for. If they aren’t going to help us out, then we obviously aren’t going to help them out.

I put my vote down for restoring the Coke machine in the bookstore, because they are the ones that deserve to have the student support. If the bookstore did offer to get into the convenience store business, then perhaps that would be a better solution than letting those that don’t understand student budgeting run things. All in all, now that the word’s out, I suppose that the Food and Dining Services will be having even harder of a time getting their Coke sold, because the word’s out that they are really ‘gypping’ all of their consumers.

Brittney Furniss