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<blockquote data-quote="Intense_Interest" data-source="post: 4837818" data-attributes="member: 65904">You're just tad bit absolutely ignorant of the details in your examples here.Blockbuster/Hollywood Video type stores are Sprawlfront properties, being developed next to pop-art fronted nail stores, Radio Shacks, and Subway franchises.&nbsp; They aren't &quot;magnet businesses&quot;- they have the symbiote's relationship with the Grocer-Department stores like Walmart and Fred Meyer.&nbsp; These are the stores that die when gas gets to be a $5 a gallon.Bookstores and music stores are not only competing with the internet (obsoletely so, in the case of music) but with the &quot;Big Barn&quot; style entertainment Barnes &amp; Nobles of the world, that offer just as much selection for the same price.&nbsp; Thriving &amp; Surviving stores of either genre dependablely offer better selection and more professional service than those stores, and a more immediate sale than the internet.The LGS, on the other hand, has better qualities than either case.&nbsp; Most of this has to do with the fact that a LGS is a niche industry, to the point of cannibalization of an entire &quot;geek&quot; niche, with the comic/wargame/miniature/RPG/CCG store being more successful over-all. 1- Storefront/&quot;Magnet&quot; business.&nbsp; As other businesses fail in down-town commerical districts because of effects like the internet and suburban spawl, the likelyhood of rising rents forcing them out drop.&nbsp; Because of the high rention rates of &quot;geek&quot; hobbies, walk-up business is often more profitable than, say, a bead store or a shoe store.&nbsp; Placing a business in a high-density commerical core is actually a better investment than trying to &quot;out sprawl&quot; a business by trying to reach the suburban commuter.2- Big Barn/Internet competition is lacking certain central provisions- such as personalized service, water-hole/cultural hotspot, and &quot;gaming space&quot;.&nbsp; CCG-centric stores commonly have twice-a-week tournaments that throw together a mass of eyeballs to provide side-business and bring in friends.&nbsp; Essentially, in citys that aren't built to fail already (Sprawl without a downtown core transit, towns without a centric institution to provide jobs), there will always be a FLGS unless a non-present gamechanger comes to alter this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Intense_Interest, post: 4837818, member: 65904"] You're just tad bit absolutely ignorant of the details in your examples here. Blockbuster/Hollywood Video type stores are Sprawlfront properties, being developed next to pop-art fronted nail stores, Radio Shacks, and Subway franchises. They aren't "magnet businesses"- they have the symbiote's relationship with the Grocer-Department stores like Walmart and Fred Meyer. These are the stores that die when gas gets to be a $5 a gallon. Bookstores and music stores are not only competing with the internet (obsoletely so, in the case of music) but with the "Big Barn" style entertainment Barnes & Nobles of the world, that offer just as much selection for the same price. Thriving & Surviving stores of either genre dependablely offer better selection and more professional service than those stores, and a more immediate sale than the internet. The LGS, on the other hand, has better qualities than either case. Most of this has to do with the fact that a LGS is a niche industry, to the point of cannibalization of an entire "geek" niche, with the comic/wargame/miniature/RPG/CCG store being more successful over-all. 1- Storefront/"Magnet" business. As other businesses fail in down-town commerical districts because of effects like the internet and suburban spawl, the likelyhood of rising rents forcing them out drop. Because of the high rention rates of "geek" hobbies, walk-up business is often more profitable than, say, a bead store or a shoe store. Placing a business in a high-density commerical core is actually a better investment than trying to "out sprawl" a business by trying to reach the suburban commuter. 2- Big Barn/Internet competition is lacking certain central provisions- such as personalized service, water-hole/cultural hotspot, and "gaming space". CCG-centric stores commonly have twice-a-week tournaments that throw together a mass of eyeballs to provide side-business and bring in friends. Essentially, in citys that aren't built to fail already (Sprawl without a downtown core transit, towns without a centric institution to provide jobs), there will always be a FLGS unless a non-present gamechanger comes to alter this. [/QUOTE]

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