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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 5317438" data-attributes="member: 158">My answer would be "in what context?" They have a right to push whatever they want; if they want to be fair to customers and their bottom line, though, they need to at least become familiar with product they're selling and its strengths and weaknesses. If I were in business as an FLGS, and I were "in it to win it", then I'd get familiar with everything, even the latest fad games (right now seems like the German Board game stuff still has the greatest headway to my untrained eye) and check into the popularity of new things I heard customers mention, even if they seem silly to me. (As I get older, I'm perfectly aware of my biases that most things that younger gamers prefer will sound silly to me at first. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />) I'd also keep my ear to the internet buzz to see what's hot. In other words, do what most old-fashioned salespeople do, using the tools of the modern era, because if I don't, like 50% of all small businesses, I'd become another statistic.</blockquote>