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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JiffyPopTart" data-source="post: 960785" data-attributes="member: 4881">Zaruthustran, that may have been the most concise, most perfect version of what I have in my head as a "Game Store" ever put down on paper.You are absolutely correct.  I can already get my gaming products for a lot cheaper from an internet source.  I can already game in my apartment, with a better bigger table than they have at the FLGS, and with more comfortable chairs and no screaming kids to boot!Your vision of a "Service Establishment" more than a "Retail Establishment" is exactly what would get me in the door and spending money.  You would make money by selling me food and drinks.  You would make money when I would grab a spur-of-the-moment pack of character sheets or set of dice.  You could even make money charging me a membership to give me access to the super-comfy chair area of the store.I have 4 FLGS in my area (Cincinnati).  1.  Two of them are Comic Book stores that have expanded their supply of games.  They have next to no shelf space available for new product, so mostly every time I go there its the same old stuff time after time.  They have ONE table set up for in-store gaming which usually has either a gaggle of kids playing some sort of card game or piles of product waiting to be put on shelves.  There is NO WAY I would ever try to hold my game there, as there is absolutely no room to do so.  I always make an effort to purchase something, if only a miniature, as "payment" for the time I spend there, but since they offer NO discount at all on any of their items, I do all of my bulk buying online.2. One of them is mostly a Model Kit store, that also has expanded into gaming.  It has a pretty decent turn around on its board games area (The Comic Book store has almost none) and keeps most of the big name RPG's in stock.  Unfortunately it has no instore gaming at all, and it closes at 6pm on the weekends, way to early to get in the gaming groove.3. The last store (about 40 minutes drive) is probably the best store.  It has a wide variety of products (except Warhammer, which I have stopped playing anyway) and has a couple tables in the back devoted to gaming.  They also have an "open till the lights are out" policy which is awesome.  Sadly, since they are so far away compared to the other stores, I only get up there on rare occasions.  Once again, why drive 40 minutes to sit in on a game when I can be at a local friends game in 5?Someone open this "Super-Gaming-Mecca" in Cincinnati and see if i'm lying!DS</blockquote>

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