Joys of WoTC retail store

[Katowice]

WOTC Stores bother me. They hardly ever have any sales, their salespeople are helpful-to-the-point-of-being-annoying, and they never seem to know anything about the products coming out that month.

 

[Tom Cashel]

I stopped shopping at WotC when they expanded their board games and computer games to fill the front 90% of the store, and moved all RPG material onto bookshelves in the back 10% of the store (so you have to squeeze past the tables and climb over the bookbags of CCG players just to get a look at the spines of the books).

Lame. Is this a chain-wide change or just what they did locally (Maryland)?

 

[Mark]

I stopped shopping at WotC when they expanded their board games and computer games to fill the front 90% of the store, and moved all RPG material onto bookshelves in the back 10% of the store (so you have to squeeze past the tables and climb over the bookbags of CCG players just to get a look at the spines of the books).

Have you forgotten your training, Brother Tom?

Cross check, man! Cross check!

 

[Merlion]

To Katowice: dont blame the employees too much. upper management really pushes you to push people...my district manager was terrible. And generaly the people working at the stores dont know a lot more about the release dates than the general public...and are discouraged from giving out to much information in case something changes.
To Tom Chashel: Its not just local. since WotC is run by Hasbro the Wotc/Gamekeeper stores are generaly overstocked with hasbro family games party games etc. When things are put on sale its always those...and their always in the front of the store. I think the fact that the overhead costs on those types of games is probably lower probably contributes too.

 

[Pants]

A bunch of the WotC stores shut down too, didn't they?

 

[Merlion]

Dont know, but it wouldnt surprise me.

 

[Desdichado]

Two of the four in our area just shut down. The two that were actually somewhat near me, too, I might add.

 

[thalmin]

The WotC store near us, in the Woodfield Mall, is closing, too.

 

[Olive]

WOTC Stores bother me. They hardly ever have any sales, their salespeople are helpful-to-the-point-of-being-annoying, and they never seem to know anything about the products coming out that month.

at least in GW stores, the staff know their stuff!

 

[Darrin Drader]

I used to love my local WotC store. The employees knew me, knew a lot about D20 and gaming, and you could hold an intelligent conversation with them about the products. It was a fun place to go.