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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 960842" data-attributes="member: 8530">Interesting thread.    By way of background let me first state that I have worked in retailing (both at the store and corporate level) on and off for the past 25 years, and teach retailing classes at two local colleges.     My opinion: Discounters and the practice of discounting is here to stay.   The Mom-and-Pop stores can and will always have a niche market to fill, due to being able to provide unique customer service and specialty products not available by the mass market retailers.  But if the smaller stores ever hope to be able to compete on price for the best sellers then they are kidding themselves.   What the FLGS need to do is focus on their strengths.   Bear in mind one other thing, we are in the midst of a multi-year recession, and gaming is a luxury item not a necessity.  My upstairs tenant manages a Comic/Card/Gaming shop that has been around for 30+ years, and they are going on their third year of barely getting by.   FLGS will go out of business, but primarily for significant business and economic reasons, not just because a handful of their regular customers bought a few best selling books online.  On the other hand, my Grandfather used to say "Always buy gas from the guy who fixes your car."  There is something to be said for that philosophy too.   A valued customer is treasued by the smaller retailer, and spending that extra $ 5 on the book could pay off for the customer in the long run. And on a lighter note, my theory about why the books are selling so well is that the recent G.E. commercial has convinced all nerds to go out and buy a copy of the PHB as a gift for their supermodel girlfriends.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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