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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EmbraCraig" data-source="post: 5873000" data-attributes="member: 6678377">But that all comes with the assumption that the reason for the shop being there is purely to sell product. As I said in my original post, that's not the primary reason that the GW shops are there. I'm pretty sure GW HQ will have had a conversation about whether it's worth taking away some of the gaming tables to put up shelves with more product on them - it's not the way they want to go with them. Would carrying RPGs help them? Maybe, maybe not... I play the 40k RPGs weekly, and manage without minis 99% of the time, so I don't think it would help them sell more models.  I don't think it would really introduce any more people to the core game either - I'd guess people that play the 40k RPGs are generally aware of the core GW games and already know if they're interested and where they could find out/buy things for them. And what response would I get if I went into another shop and asked about something that they didn't sell? Well, probably not much help... but the very most I could reasonaly expect would be someone politely suggesting somewhere I might find what I was looking for.  Any more than that would probably be because they're a generally helpful person (and would give the same answer if you asked them on the street, for example) and not much related to whether they were working in a vaguely related shop or not.</blockquote>