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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2402015" data-attributes="member: 14159"><p>Ding!</p><p></p><p>I've never seen any RPG at Wal-Mart. Last Christmas I got a gift card to Wal Mart as a door prize at a company Christmas party. Usually not going to Mal-Wart for dislike of how they treat their workers, hurt small and large businesses (look at what they did to Vlasic pickles!), sue small towns that try to use zoning laws to prevent them from building there, I wasn't too crystal clear on what they had and didn't have, but I didn't have the highest hopes for using that card to buy the newest D&D books. However, since I knew they carried popular CCG's (i.e. Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic), I figured that the mass-marketed D&D and Star Wars minis might be there, no luck. (They did have a very small amount of Star Wars minis, probably just one case, in the initial merchandising for Episode III, but they didn't restock).</p><p></p><p>"Big box" stores are not our friends in the long run. They cater to the masses, and we are not the masses. We are a niche, a speciality, and there are still a lot of people in the more rural areas of this country who falsely believe our hobby is just thinly veiled devil worship and cult recruiting. As a niche, we need a niche market, and the small, independent retail store is excellent for that. Personally, I'd gag at a starbucks-like gaming chain (I already don't go to starbucks for their overpriced coffee, if I want coffee I know plenty of local coffeehouses to go to).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 2402015, member: 14159"] Ding! I've never seen any RPG at Wal-Mart. Last Christmas I got a gift card to Wal Mart as a door prize at a company Christmas party. Usually not going to Mal-Wart for dislike of how they treat their workers, hurt small and large businesses (look at what they did to Vlasic pickles!), sue small towns that try to use zoning laws to prevent them from building there, I wasn't too crystal clear on what they had and didn't have, but I didn't have the highest hopes for using that card to buy the newest D&D books. However, since I knew they carried popular CCG's (i.e. Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic), I figured that the mass-marketed D&D and Star Wars minis might be there, no luck. (They did have a very small amount of Star Wars minis, probably just one case, in the initial merchandising for Episode III, but they didn't restock). "Big box" stores are not our friends in the long run. They cater to the masses, and we are not the masses. We are a niche, a speciality, and there are still a lot of people in the more rural areas of this country who falsely believe our hobby is just thinly veiled devil worship and cult recruiting. As a niche, we need a niche market, and the small, independent retail store is excellent for that. Personally, I'd gag at a starbucks-like gaming chain (I already don't go to starbucks for their overpriced coffee, if I want coffee I know plenty of local coffeehouses to go to). [/QUOTE]
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