Xavier Bookstore

[JTG]

Wouldn't you think the Xavier Bookstore might think people would want the Big East Inaugural Season shirt they are selling. And therefore stock up on them. I ordered 3 a month ago, and still don't have them. I got an email 2 weeks ago saying they are waiting for more to be printed. Glad to know the nothing has changed since at the XU bookstore in the 40 yrs. since I graduated.

[gladdenguy]

I dropped a pretty penny in there last week.
Sweet gray nike pants with the X logo ($75)
Sweet nike shorts (blue with a gray stripe down the side) ($45)
and a Columbia black vest with an X logo ($50)

I will tell you what though. I am extremely happy we are a Nike school and I love the merchandise.
I hate that Michigan is an adidas school.

[jhelmes37]

I dropped a pretty penny in there last week.
Sweet gray nike pants with the X logo ($75)
Sweet nike shorts (blue with a gray stripe down the side) ($45)
and a Columbia black vest with an X logo ($50)

I will tell you what though. I am extremely happy we are a Nike school and I love the merchandise.
I hate that Michigan is an adidas school.

Some of the stuff at the MDen is unbelievably hideous. And their mesh shorts are god-awful. Fab Five shorts are arguably the most iconic college athletics apparel item of all time. What Adidas has done to them is deplorable.

[Cheesehead]

Bookstore needs to overhauled and bring in some new vendors besides Nike. I am not sure who the buyer is over there but the selection is piss poor.

[BMoreX]

Does anyone know when the new bookstore will open in University Station? I know the whole point of moving it was to make it more accessible to fans. Is it Phase 1 or Phase 2 of the project?

[CinciX12]

I haven't tried to buy anything from Xavier here recently but I believe they use the same supplier as Notre Dame and I just had a recent bad experience with them.

I tried to buy just a jacket from their bookstore website and they were sold out of practically every size and had no idea when they would be resupplied. This happened to me all the time at Xavier.

The selection at Xavier has been terrible for 5 years, once an item sells out it is never re-stocked. I have never had a good experience with the Xavier bookstore.

[Jumpy]

We all have this same complaint year in and year out, but nothing changes down there. Where are the high value alum that can exact some change? We need you guys to step up and start picketing the bookstore or something.

[boozehound]

We all have this same complaint year in and year out, but nothing changes down there. Where are the high value alum that can exact some change? We need you guys to step up and start picketing the bookstore or something.

I complain about this at least 10x per year. It's as if they do not want want to make money. Here is their formula: Order small quantites of a bunch of stuff. Use zero judgement in terms of what will and will not sell and order the same quantity of everything. When ordering sizes, make sure to order more smalls and mediums than larges and XL's, even though nobody buys those sizes and you always have way too many. When something sells quickly, indicating a demand for said product, under no circumstances should you order more.

Basically I see it as what happens when you have a business that is run by a bunch of academics. No consequences for poor performance, just keep doing what you are doing even if it isn't working. If the merchandise buyer from the Bookstore worked for any other retail outlet they would have been canned years ago. Maybe Luther Smith is in charge of the bookstore too.

[paulxu]

I haven't tried to buy anything from Xavier here recently but I believe they use the same supplier as Notre Dame and I just had a recent bad experience with them.

I tried to buy just a jacket from their bookstore website and they were sold out of practically every size and had no idea when they would be resupplied. .

I have tried to buy a medium or heavier weight jacket from XU for years. Literally, for years. I've got a golf type jacket. It's nice.
But a regular jacket? Never have seen one. Would make sense in South Carolina, but Cincinnati does get cold in the winter. If anyone ever sees a real jacket go on sale there, send me a message.

[Milhouse]

Wish X would put out an order only magazine similar to ND. The amount of stuff they have in it is unfathomable. Also that way they wouldn't need to keep a bunch of "niche" items in stock if its order only.

[Muskie]

I'm told they are revamping the Bookstore. But I'm not quite sure what that entails.

[Muskie1000]

They don't need to revamp the bookstore, they just need to get in more merchandise.

[bobbiemcgee]

I'm told they are revamping the Bookstore. But I'm not quite sure what that entails.

Hopefully, revamping the mgmt.

[X-band '01]

There's a post in Gladden's wheelhouse.

[Masterofreality]

We all have this same complaint year in and year out, but nothing changes down there. Where are the high value alum that can exact some change? We need you guys to step up and start picketing the bookstore or something.

All of us "high value alums" are too busy working, earning a buck and contributing to society rather than chomping up time picketing.

[94GRAD]

Does anyone know when the new bookstore will open in University Station? I know the whole point of moving it was to make it more accessible to fans. Is it Phase 1 or Phase 2 of the project?


Phase 1. It will be located on the corner of Cleaney and Montgomery.

[Kahns Krazy]

Wish X would put out an order only magazine similar to ND. The amount of stuff they have in it is unfathomable. Also that way they wouldn't need to keep a bunch of "niche" items in stock if its order only.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uMnPChv91ts/UiZHDy5s0nI/AAAAAAAAGx4/GpShVGRQgo8/s1600/ncf_e_ndcup_400.jpg

Yeah. I want some sweet "Musekteers" stuff.

[JTG]

Update on my month old order...got an email from the bookstore yesterday...mabe in by 9/16, and shipped the same day...we'll see.

[blobfan]

I haven't tried to buy anything from Xavier here recently but I believe they use the same supplier as Notre Dame and I just had a recent bad experience with them.

I tried to buy just a jacket from their bookstore website and they were sold out of practically every size and had no idea when they would be resupplied. This happened to me all the time at Xavier.

The selection at Xavier has been terrible for 5 years, once an item sells out it is never re-stocked. I have never had a good experience with the Xavier bookstore.

At the risk of sounding like an old fogey: you don't KNOW bad selection like we did back in the 90s. It was either over-priced t-shirts that you had to wait until they were on clearance to afford or REALLY overpriced sweatshirts. $60 for a sweatshirt in 1993? Seriously?!? OK. They had some mid-range stuff, but the selection was just, well, terrible.

[LadyMuskie]

At the risk of sounding like an old fogey: you don't KNOW bad selection like we did back in the 90s. It was either over-priced t-shirts that you had to wait until they were on clearance to afford or REALLY overpriced sweatshirts. $60 for a sweatshirt in 1993? Seriously?!? OK. They had some mid-range stuff, but the selection was just, well, terrible.

So true! It wasn't much better the latter half of the 90s. I arrived on campus in the fall of 97 and save the Crosstown Shootout shirt each year, had to wait until my parents came on campus to buy something it was all so pricey. It wasn't until Cintas was built, and I was about to graduate that things started looking up. So, while it's not good now, it is an improvement. Plus, you can now find things at Dillard's, Macy's, Kohl's, Meijer, etc. and that was unheard of until a few years ago.

And all of that is still not as bad as the actual textbook store was back in the day. That store was located inside of what I'm pretty sure was an old closet. I never measured, but I'm certain some of the dorm rooms on campus had more square footage. I am pretty sure that room was never inspected by the fire marshal, or Follet was paying off the fire marshal. Something went on there. That place was a nightmare!

[blobfan]

It was some department's store room, if I remember. Maybe not even the bookstore's. I think it opened late one year I was there because they didn't get the stuff moved out in time so everyone crammed in there the weekend before classes started trying to get all their books. Was Follet even involved at that point?

Now, if you wanted a Xavier keychain, the 90s bookstore was your place. I remember a lot of keychains for some reason.

[blueblob06]

I complain about this at least 10x per year. It's as if they do not want want to make money. Here is their formula: Order small quantites of a bunch of stuff. Use zero judgement in terms of what will and will not sell and order the same quantity of everything. When ordering sizes, make sure to order more smalls and mediums than larges and XL's, even though nobody buys those sizes and you always have way too many. When something sells quickly, indicating a demand for said product, under no circumstances should you order more.

Basically I see it as what happens when you have a business that is run by a bunch of academics. No consequences for poor performance, just keep doing what you are doing even if it isn't working. If the merchandise buyer from the Bookstore worked for any other retail outlet they would have been canned years ago. Maybe Luther Smith is in charge of the bookstore too.

Well said. Every summer I go to the bookstore and buy the previous year's X shirt for super cheap (like $4 to $5 each). That's the only positive in them not ordering the right amounts of the right products. But yeah, that should not happen every year where they have to just sell shit for $4 to get rid of it. But it happens, EVERY year. Pretty unbelievable. I can just see the company that makes the shirts on the phone with the bookstore..."Okay, we'll go ahead and put you down for 20,000 X shirts again this year, 5,000 in each size as usual" and the oblivious bookstore person saying "Okay, that's what we ordered last year? Okay, send them over."

[LadyMuskie]

It was some department's store room, if I remember. Maybe not even the bookstore's. I think it opened late one year I was there because they didn't get the stuff moved out in time so everyone crammed in there the weekend before classes started trying to get all their books. Was Follet even involved at that point?

Now, if you wanted a Xavier keychain, the 90s bookstore was your place. I remember a lot of keychains for some reason.

I think my junior year Follet bought it and put a sign above the "entrance" to the closet that said Follet (it was around the same time you could order some textbooks online if you could decipher the website and secret handshake you had to use, before they partnered with Amazon.) I remember wondering why a company would want to advertise the closet space it had purchased.

You're right about the key chains!

[X-band '01]

So true! It wasn't much better the latter half of the 90s. I arrived on campus in the fall of 97 and save the Crosstown Shootout shirt each year, had to wait until my parents came on campus to buy something it was all so pricey. It wasn't until Cintas was built, and I was about to graduate that things started looking up. So, while it's not good now, it is an improvement. Plus, you can now find things at Dillard's, Macy's, Kohl's, Meijer, etc. and that was unheard of until a few years ago.

And all of that is still not as bad as the actual textbook store was back in the day. That store was located inside of what I'm pretty sure was an old closet. I never measured, but I'm certain some of the dorm rooms on campus had more square footage. I am pretty sure that room was never inspected by the fire marshal, or Follet was paying off the fire marshal. Something went on there. That place was a nightmare!

You mean when the textbook portion of the Bookstore was crammed into part of the Downunder? I liked that place in a morbid sort of way. I forget where they sold the other merchandise, though.

[Muskie]

So true! It wasn't much better the latter half of the 90s. I arrived on campus in the fall of 97 and save the Crosstown Shootout shirt each year, had to wait until my parents came on campus to buy something it was all so pricey. It wasn't until Cintas was built, and I was about to graduate that things started looking up. So, while it's not good now, it is an improvement. Plus, you can now find things at Dillard's, Macy's, Kohl's, Meijer, etc. and that was unheard of until a few years ago.

And all of that is still not as bad as the actual textbook store was back in the day. That store was located inside of what I'm pretty sure was an old closet. I never measured, but I'm certain some of the dorm rooms on campus had more square footage. I am pretty sure that room was never inspected by the fire marshal, or Follet was paying off the fire marshal. Something went on there. That place was a nightmare!

Arriving in 1996 myself, I remember getting a Xavier Sweatshirt by Champion. One of the most uncomfortable items i've ever warn. Selection was bad and what was available wasn't necessarily a pleasure to wear.

[LadyMuskie]

You mean when the textbook portion of the Bookstore was crammed into part of the Downunder? I liked that place in a morbid sort of way. I forget where they sold the other merchandise, though.

Yes! The other bookstore, the one for merchandise, was one floor up next to The Grill, I think. Maybe near the theater. Maybe I'm just adding all these places together. Anyway. . .

[Muskie]

Yes! The other bookstore, the one for merchandise, was one floor up next to The Grill, I think. Maybe near the theater. Maybe I'm just adding all these places together. Anyway. . .

Yes across from the "all-card" center.

[JTG]

Update: My order showed up Tues 9/17, and they included a nice X water bottle, for my inconvenience.

[Cheesehead]

I bought the Grey Big East shirt down on Fountain Square when they had the Xavier Day. A week later I get a call from the bookstore saying transaction didn't go through as they forgot to get my security code from my credit card. Now, is that my problem? They were not super organized down there and they were almost out of shirts in some sizes and I got there 1/2 hour after it started. I haven't called them back yet.

[boozehound]

Was checking out the Xavier online store. Looks like the Nike Elite thing is kicking in. Lots of really cool, and really expensive, Nike gear available out there.

[murray87]

I'll put in a plug for Meijer. Selection isn't tremendous but I bought a nice golf shirt there recently for $25. Material is that 'dry fit' style that Under
Armour & Nike use but without the huge mark-up.

[American X]

Who wants to start a Peruvian flute band?

http://xavier.cbscollegestore.com/store/Vendor250/500/14589627-z.jpg

Just what I was looking for, bookstore! Nevermind a basic blue knit cap with an X.