MET Alum Makes Headlines – Owns New England’s Largest Independent Bookstore
Last November, MET Alum and former insurance executive, Tom Lyons (MET’76) bought New England Mobile Book Fair (NEMBF). Since then he’s held weekly meetings and hired a consultant to organize over one million books in his Newton Highlands location. Lyons calls it “organized chaos.” The purpose of the reorganization was to the benefit of the customers and employees of NEMBF. Until recently the books had been organized by publisher instead of genre. Last Christmas Lyons’ 30 employees were running 30 different directions to help customers find books. “We’ve had to create staging areas where we could sort the books into categories: first, fiction versus nonfiction, and then breaking out major areas of fiction, such as mysteries,” says Lyons.
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