Border’s #01 is first and foremost a Border’s Store, with all the same offerings as its younger siblings, but it somehow feels a little different being that its #01 and just down the street from where the whole chain started. It’s fun to walk around when you have some time to kill downtown and there is always a good number of customers walking around the store.

The store still feels like a corporate store but it does have tiny patches of personality like the telltale inclines on the floor resulting from merging several older buildings together, or the seemingly out of place hutch behind the checkout counter. Besides that the features are run of the mill, one can find sections for books, dvds, music, also a Seattle’s Best Coffee, and a big waste of space called Paperchase. The bathrooms are usually not the cleanest in the world (something I notice at many big bookstores)