{"id":3825,"date":"2012-09-04T09:21:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T16:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2012-09-05T09:17:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T16:17:43","slug":"new-pre-ordering-service-means-less-time-waiting-at-bookstore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/09\/04\/new-pre-ordering-service-means-less-time-waiting-at-bookstore\/","title":{"rendered":"New pre-ordering service means less time waiting at bookstore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say goodbye to waiting in long lines while you&#8217;re trying to buy your new textbooks. The Camosun College bookstore has announced a new program that will allow students to pre-order texts online then come and pick them up in the store.<\/p>\n<p>Last September, the college ran a pilot program of the pre-ordering service at the Interurban campus. It went well and the service is now available at both campuses.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/free_books_on_the_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3826\" title=\"free_books_on_the_web\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/free_books_on_the_web-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/free_books_on_the_web-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/free_books_on_the_web-180x122.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/free_books_on_the_web.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTo pre-order, head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/camosuncollegebookstore.ca\" target=\"_blank\">camosuncollegebookstore.ca<\/a> and find the &#8220;avoid the lines!&#8221; feature. You pay an extra $4 for the service, which covers packaging and the always-mysterious &#8220;handling,&#8221; but that doesn&#8217;t seem to be deterring students from using the service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are already seeing a huge increase in the use of the pick-up in-store option and well over half of our orders are being picked up,&#8221; Laura-Lea Berna, Camosun manager of ancillary services, said in a statement. &#8220;As we get closer to the first day of classes on September 4, we expect this number to climb.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t doddle: you need to place your order by August 29 (service will resume on September 14, after the back-to-school chaos winds down a bit).<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t want to pay that extra $4, books for fall classes are on the bookstore shelves now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say goodbye to waiting in long lines while you&#8217;re trying to buy your new textbooks. The Camosun College bookstore has announced a new program that will allow students to pre-order texts online then come and pick them up in the store. Last September, the college ran a pilot program of the pre-ordering service at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-campus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3825"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3831,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions\/3831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}