How's your FLGS doing after the Diamond Comic Distributors crash?

[Peter BOSCO'S]

I suppose that's possible, but I doubt it very much. Or at least, that is an entirely new phenomenon that I have never experienced and find difficult to believe.

(Though in some ways, would not surprise me, what with how insanely terrible at the very basics of the act of distribution, I have found current distributors to be).

So... maybe?

It hasn't happened to us and if I knew for sure that it was happening to others than that would be confidential information that I could not comment on, so treat my comment as a guess from someone who has spent 30 years dealing with distributors....

 

[aramis erak]

@Peter BOSCO'S
Are you affiliated with BOSCO'S in Anchorage! I love that place!

I miss Bosco's... Peter and I have been friends for decades, and Erik (the manager last I heard) and I know each other from CHS. Great store, great people. Matt's (in Corvallis) feels about a decade behind Bosco's main store...
What Peter isn't sayin is that Mad Al's is a distributor which is affiliated with Bosco's (same foundational ownership, now differently proportioned), so he does know two sides of the 3 of retail distribution. I don't know what all of Mad Al's is games, and that's proprietary info he's not shared with me.
I used to do some of the demos and an AL table at boscos — left Anch in 2016.

 

[aramis erak]

There's really only two explanations that I can think of:

1) They don't "feel like" moving to the new distributors. (It's not hard to do).
2) The new distributors have done credit checks on them, and don't want them as clients (which they would only do if their credit rating is disastrous).

I'm afraid I can't think of any other explanation.

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3) Distributors are refusing new clients because they are already so short on Magic and Pokemon and they don't feel like getting more customers whose largest orders they won't be able to fill.

4) distributors are short staffed and unable to process more orders even if they have the stock.

It's not that they can't find workers, it's that the US culture has largely moved away from training unskilled labor to skilled labor, and distribution warehouse is usually skilled labor... but paid as if unskilled labor.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

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4) distributors are short staffed and unable to process more orders even if they have the stock.

It's not that they can't find workers, it's that the US culture has largely moved away from training unskilled labor to skilled labor, and distribution warehouse is usually skilled labor... but paid as if unskilled labor.

Yeah, possibly. Again, something that I haven't seen in the 32 years that I've been in the business, but with how absolutely terrible the basics of distribution has become, and how much institutional knowledge seems to have been lost... I guess that's possible.

It's baffling, but somehow rings possible.

 

[aramis erak]

Yeah, possibly. Again, something that I haven't seen in the 32 years that I've been in the business, but with how absolutely terrible the basics of distribution has become, and how much institutional knowledge seems to have been lost... I guess that's possible.

It's baffling, but somehow rings possible.

I've seen warehouse jobs in my Linked in, needing 2 years warehouse experience... and forklift experience. I think they hiring management doesn't understand the difference twixt archive and warehouse, as it cited my time at NARA NS12 as warehouse experience...
there are a lot of jobs open in many industries, but getting entry level means 2 years wage slave. (I couldn't keep up at the Archives 30 years ago... a real warehouse would kill me.)