Considering that the media plays up the
worst possible scenarios in everything — you would think that a winter snowstorm was an assault on the existance of all humanity in its path the way some
weather forecasters talk about it — the constant inflation of the danger
posed by ordinary events, it is no wonder that people are fearful.
It could be that the bookshops that remain have already
weathered the
worst of the challenges
posed by «big - box» retailers, which are in decline, and the movement to online shopping.