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<blockquote data-quote="Beleriphon" data-source="post: 7697027" data-attributes="member: 27847"><p>My biggest complaint with the FLGS is mainly one of price. If I'm going to drop 30% to 40% more than buying on Amazon I expect to have a store that is clean, smells nice, and isn't a cheap hole in the wall in a bad part of town. I'm not the Ritz here, but too many people that run a gaming store are enthusiasts and not professional retailers. All too often they just don't get how to have an attractive store that is easy to find product in, let alone how to actually manage stock.</p><p></p><p>As it stands I don't make a lot of money, so online purchases at heavy discounts are my preferred method of buying, and I quite frankly don't worry if a local retailer closes because I'm not shopping their to start with. As it stands I don't buy that much anyways due to escalating costs of products, so online is my preferred method.</p><p></p><p>All that being said to survive I think most "gaming" store need to move from the comic book/games model into a diversified set of products that cater to the geek market: t-shirts, gifts, toys, etc. If there was a single store in town where I could buy all of my geeky t-shirts I'd go there rather than order form the USA and pay exchange rates and shipping to get something into Canada. It might honestly take having retailers for a consortium to negotiate better prices from manufacturers, but I don't really see local retailers having the wherewithal or expertise to manage such a thing.</p><p></p><p>On playing in store I have neither the time nor schedule to bother playing a store half way across town, on top of paying for my gas to get there and for parking once I arrive. That isn't what I care about at all, if that's the only way somebody can play well I hope that stores stay open for a long time, but if they don't I'm not going to mourn their loss.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beleriphon, post: 7697027, member: 27847"] My biggest complaint with the FLGS is mainly one of price. If I'm going to drop 30% to 40% more than buying on Amazon I expect to have a store that is clean, smells nice, and isn't a cheap hole in the wall in a bad part of town. I'm not the Ritz here, but too many people that run a gaming store are enthusiasts and not professional retailers. All too often they just don't get how to have an attractive store that is easy to find product in, let alone how to actually manage stock. As it stands I don't make a lot of money, so online purchases at heavy discounts are my preferred method of buying, and I quite frankly don't worry if a local retailer closes because I'm not shopping their to start with. As it stands I don't buy that much anyways due to escalating costs of products, so online is my preferred method. All that being said to survive I think most "gaming" store need to move from the comic book/games model into a diversified set of products that cater to the geek market: t-shirts, gifts, toys, etc. If there was a single store in town where I could buy all of my geeky t-shirts I'd go there rather than order form the USA and pay exchange rates and shipping to get something into Canada. It might honestly take having retailers for a consortium to negotiate better prices from manufacturers, but I don't really see local retailers having the wherewithal or expertise to manage such a thing. On playing in store I have neither the time nor schedule to bother playing a store half way across town, on top of paying for my gas to get there and for parking once I arrive. That isn't what I care about at all, if that's the only way somebody can play well I hope that stores stay open for a long time, but if they don't I'm not going to mourn their loss. [/QUOTE]
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