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<blockquote data-quote="CoatRackOfDoom" data-source="post: 4337310" data-attributes="member: 71191">Gamersgambit: I'm a 39 year old roleplayer who's childhood gaming store was a shop that specialized in model kits.&nbsp; Roleplaying games and miniatures were given about 15% of the floorspace, but there were no tables and no one on the staff appeared to know anything about the games.&nbsp; I suspect the store owner was just savvy about what the neighborhood kids would buy.&nbsp; Anyway, it was good enough for me to find what I needed, but the community aspect was completely missing.I've never played in a store.&nbsp; So, these days when I go into a LGS and spot an empty table, I don't think about how my group might just find a home there.&nbsp; Perhaps I figure that table is for Magic players or Warhammer players.&nbsp; In other words, I'm not going to ask you &quot;GG, is that table available on Thursday nights for my group?&quot;&nbsp; (maybe I'll do that now that I've brought it up...)Perhaps your customers who just buy dice and the occasional $5 third-party supplement might be more willing to buy the high-end stuff if they developed that same attachment YOU had to your FLGS.&nbsp; And perhaps they don't feel INVITED to make themselves at home around a table in your store...So, if you're not doing it already, maybe try extending these casual customers a personal invitation to 'join the family' when you see them.I think it's something that I would appreciate, anyway.Cheers,Ed</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CoatRackOfDoom, post: 4337310, member: 71191"] [COLOR=White]Gamersgambit: I'm a 39 year old roleplayer who's childhood gaming store was a shop that specialized in model kits. Roleplaying games and miniatures were given about 15% of the floorspace, but there were no tables and no one on the staff appeared to know anything about the games. I suspect the store owner was just savvy about what the neighborhood kids would buy. Anyway, it was good enough for me to find what I needed, but the community aspect was completely missing. I've never played in a store. So, these days when I go into a LGS and spot an empty table, I don't think about how my group might just find a home there. Perhaps I figure that table is for Magic players or Warhammer players. In other words, I'm not going to ask you "GG, is that table available on Thursday nights for my group?" (maybe I'll do that now that I've brought it up...) Perhaps your customers who just buy dice and the occasional $5 third-party supplement might be more willing to buy the high-end stuff if they developed that same attachment YOU had to your FLGS. And perhaps they don't feel INVITED to make themselves at home around a table in your store... So, if you're not doing it already, maybe try extending these casual customers a personal invitation to 'join the family' when you see them. I think it's something that I would appreciate, anyway. Cheers, Ed [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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