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<blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 7720259" data-attributes="member: 6803337">One factor in the death of bricks-and-mortar retailers is False Advertising.Advertise a product is on sale.&nbsp; Have maybe 5 pieces in stock.&nbsp; When you run out (and you will, fast) tell every subsequent customer they can fill out a rain check or buy something else, like this (very expensive) similar item over here...Amazon, in contrast, never runs out of stock, or they put an Alert tag on it: &quot;only 5 items left!&quot;&nbsp; They have a wide variety of near-copy items that are in stock.Sears is a special case: it has a {CEO / majority stockholder / every other important post} who is actively working to destroy the company and wring all the cash he can out of it on the way down.FLGS is resistant to these factors (but not immune); they usually believe that you should stock what you sell, or tell your customers ahead of time that you are taking orders of the product for near-future delivery.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eltab, post: 7720259, member: 6803337"] One factor in the death of bricks-and-mortar retailers is False Advertising. Advertise a product is on sale. Have maybe 5 pieces in stock. When you run out (and you will, fast) tell every subsequent customer they can fill out a rain check or buy something else, like this (very expensive) similar item over here... Amazon, in contrast, never runs out of stock, or they put an [COLOR="#FF0000"]Alert[/COLOR] tag on it: "only 5 items left!" They have a wide variety of near-copy items that are in stock. Sears is a special case: it has a {CEO / majority stockholder / every other important post} who is actively working to destroy the company and wring all the cash he can out of it on the way down. FLGS is resistant to these factors (but not immune); they usually believe that you should stock what you sell, or tell your customers ahead of time that you are taking orders of the product for near-future delivery. [/QUOTE]

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