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McKays, Knoxville, 2025
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McKays, Knoxville, 2025
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Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes 🎂🎉🥰🫶
Went to IHOP for dinner
Here's my McKay's haul!
Manga for me, halo figure for hubby and mini nerf gun for baby girl
Girls day with my besties!
Plus my haul for today and we bought matching Supernatural friendships bracelets from Hot Topic
We DID this. Had the greatest of plans- drive to the store furthest away, Mebane. However, our amazing driver got tired so we adjusted our plans a little and stayed in Winston-Salem. We would start there, head to Mebane and then go back to TN. Staying in Winston Salem turned out to be the best thing we could have done. We went to the store in WS and arrived at about 8:15(it opened at 8). There was already a line the length of the parking lot. For most of those folks, this was their second stop. Turns out, ALOT of people had my original idea and started at Mebane. Was told that you couldn't get a hotel room, people started lining up at 5, they opened up at 6:30, ran out of passports and line was an hour wait. We did not to wait long as they opened two separate lines for those with or without passports and ours was much shorter. We are then heading to Mebane thinking it may have settled down. A FB group let us know that was not the case. The line was now 2 hrs waiting, there was no parking, police were called and cars were being towed. Traffic was backed up on the interstate and they were telling people not to go. That WS would give us our second stamp. So we turned around. Went back to WS and did get our stamp and a credit for the T-shirt that they had run out of. We headed to Knoxville knowing that the Mebane people were ahead of us. Sure enough, get to the Knoxville store and drove by as you could not get in. The police had it blocked off. The parking lot was full. The line just kept sneaking around there was an ambulance and firetruck. We decided to pass. Headed to Chattanooga hoping they would give us our third and fourth stamps- we took a photo of Knoxville to show we tried. Halfway to Chattanooga, the FB group said Knoxville was being shutdown. People were suffering from the heat and cars were being towed. We get to Chattanooga. They do give us both stamps and both credits! The line was long but inside and fast. We head to Nashville. We see in the F B group that the Knoxville people have now arrived at the Chattanooga store. The line is around the building. People have parked on the interstate and walked. The police are there and...cars are being towed. We get to Nashville. The line is looped around the back with two lines, when we start. It moves fairly quickly but was down the hill and going down the street before we made it to the side of the building. We get our last stamps and additional credit due to not getting any of the swag that had run out a long time ago. This was such a crazy day and a bigger event than anyone, even McKay's, anticipated but I am so glad to say we did it! I am thankful to McKays for doing this and being so generous. Thankful to their employees for being so accommodating and flexible and there! Thankful for getting there safely and that our car did not get towed! And special thanks to Diana for driving and just making the trip super special, and to Steffani for going with us so I could experience this with my best friend.
Did the McKays Roadtrip!
A full day of traveling and $890 in store credit later and I'm so thankful for the experience and my friends who took me.
Great way to celebrate turning 30 in a month.
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(turns out McKay's DIDN'T have Mad Max cars lying in wait on the last leg of the trip to protect their prize money by taking out anyone who made it that far)
The family and I did the Ultimate McKay's Road Trip Challenge and had a great time. McKays had clearly prepared, and probably to the capacity that they could've, but the sheer volume of folks participating far outstripped what they were capable of handling according to their original plan and they were working like crazy to pivot as conditions changed from store to store, lines and parking situations became unsafe or unmanageable, and supplies ran out (ink for the stamps, paper for the forms, etc, in addition to the prizes).
Despite all this, and despite the chaos, almost everyone we encountered (and we encountered a lot of folks) was excited to be there, grateful for the store's generosity, and, for those that made it all the way across, elated to have completed it and received the wildly large grand prize.
The grand prize, BTW, was $800 in credit to be used at any of the stores. I've bought hundreds of books over the years from McKays, mostly priced between 75 cents and four dollars; At their prices, $800 is essentially a lifetime supply of used books.
And they didn't have a cap on the number of winners; if you did it, you got it.
The challenge was to celebrate their 50th anniversary, and I hope that the logistical challenges, which were many & staggering (though far moreso for the stores than the participants, save for the heat for those susceptible to it), don't cast a negative light on a branch of bookstores for whom so many thousands and thousands of people have such enthusiasm and affection as to prompt their participation in a 500+ mile cannonball run in the middle of a july worksweek.
I'm sure that the customers wish some things had been done differently and planned for differently, but not nearly as much as do the McKays folks. But this wasn't a Fyre Festival, this was a Woodstock.
Anyway, it was stressful at times, and we fretted over the possibility of its completion, but McKays bent over backwards to try and make it to where if folks were committed to making the whole trek, they got the whole prize. They made tons of allowances as situations changed.
If you haven't been to a McKays, and are ever passing along I-40, I hope that the mania surrounding this event gives makes clear how beloved this shop is to folks who live in Tennessee and North Carolina, and outsiders (like me) who pass, and stop at, it frequently, and makes you wanna see why.
It's the best used bookstore I've ever been to (no individual McKay's store has the scale and scope that does Powell's or the Strand, but their prices are DRAMATICALLY lower than either). I'm incredibly grateful for their prompting and hosting such a great adventure with my fellow readers, and their generosity in prizes in celebration of fifty years.
McKay’s turns 50 this year, and we’re inviting you to celebrate by participating in the Ultimate McKay’s Road Trip! On July 9, all of our lo
Are any of y'all doing this today? (I'm not but some of my family are.)
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McKay’s is my favorite place to go for books around Nashville, Tennessee. Whatever you’re looking for you’re sure to find something on their shelves to satisfy every literary craving. And there are so. many. shelves. I first discovered McKay’s in Knoxville, Tennessee when I was at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville. Luckily, when I moved back to the Nashville area in 2007 the Nashville…
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