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<blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 4837782" data-attributes="member: 10177">I agree, that is why I give them 12 years. Like my kids read comic books on line now, they don't even want me to bother with print. They read all the free comics and I subscribe to Marvel on line for them.So I think as the price of gas, and the need to simply save money where possible, becomes more and more important, the number of people who continue to buy online instead of in stores will continue to grow. To the point where many store fronts will fail.I agree that diversifying your product lines will help with survivability, but eventually only stores like Super Wal-marts will be common. Stores dedicated to clothing, books, electronics, etc... are phasing out.Comic book sales are flat. Apparently the hit Iron Man and Batman movies did nothing for the comics sales long term.So being the classic &quot;RPG/Comic store&quot; is stagnating across the board. I think being an internet cafe is also just a stop gap measure, since my T-mobile Blackberry Pearl with unlimited internet hooks my laptop up to the internet where ever I have cell signal. Apparently all G1 phones do the same thing too.So there are a lot of challenges, ever changing challenges, that LGS' will have to continually adapt to overcome, at an increasingly smaller profit margin, that eventually they will all go away, or turn into such a diversified store, that they certainly will not be recognizable as our current LGS' are.They will be your local drug/milk/food/rpg store.On line sales may keep a store alive, but if all your profit comes from being on line sooner or later they will cut costs to increase profit, and shut down the store.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Treebore, post: 4837782, member: 10177"] I agree, that is why I give them 12 years. Like my kids read comic books on line now, they don't even want me to bother with print. They read all the free comics and I subscribe to Marvel on line for them. So I think as the price of gas, and the need to simply save money where possible, becomes more and more important, the number of people who continue to buy online instead of in stores will continue to grow. To the point where many store fronts will fail. I agree that diversifying your product lines will help with survivability, but eventually only stores like Super Wal-marts will be common. Stores dedicated to clothing, books, electronics, etc... are phasing out. Comic book sales are flat. Apparently the hit Iron Man and Batman movies did nothing for the comics sales long term. So being the classic "RPG/Comic store" is stagnating across the board. I think being an internet cafe is also just a stop gap measure, since my T-mobile Blackberry Pearl with unlimited internet hooks my laptop up to the internet where ever I have cell signal. Apparently all G1 phones do the same thing too. So there are a lot of challenges, ever changing challenges, that LGS' will have to continually adapt to overcome, at an increasingly smaller profit margin, that eventually they will all go away, or turn into such a diversified store, that they certainly will not be recognizable as our current LGS' are. They will be your local drug/milk/food/rpg store. On line sales may keep a store alive, but if all your profit comes from being on line sooner or later they will cut costs to increase profit, and shut down the store. [/QUOTE]

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