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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6011012" data-attributes="member: 70">My former FLGS, under its current owner, seems to do relatively well.  He moved the business from the quiet end of Main Street to a less "central", but still walkable location, with much-improved street visibility.  He bought the building and occupied 2/3rd of it, renting the other 1/3rd (this might be changing; that office was empty last time I was there).  It's a comic/magic/warhammer/rpg/boardgame store, probably in that order, and there's a guy with some counterspace and rare coins, so eggs are in many baskets, and there's a lot of traffic looking for different things.He hosts tournaments, games, and anything else people want.  The store is clean, carpeted, and well-lit (sometimes too much -- it gets a lot of afternoon sun).  Women are a regular and unremarkable presence, including at least one clerk (the most experienced).  The former owner was a woman, so that might have some carryover effect.Personally, I wouldn't mind the other office being switched over to a newsstand/very small bookstore, or possibly a small cafe, either one of which might do alright in that location, but the clerk I talked to didn't seem to know what was going on with it.    The biggest flaws I can find is that some of the clerks seem pretty disinterested: they're not actually unhelpful, but they're not really going out of their way, either.  My view might be biased, however: I haven't lived in that area for about five years, so they don't know me, but prior to that I lived about a hundred yards away, built the shelves and cabinets for the store, and had been a customer for about twenty years.  So I'm accustomed to a more familiar level of service.</blockquote>

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