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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5603307" data-attributes="member: 19675">You're absolutely right that foot-traffic is the life-giving river of retail sales, at least for most small operations.  (The internet is changing that, however.)But you can try to sell all you want; they still don't have to buy.  There have been posters on this very board who have stated that they don't- and will never again- buy from brick & mortar stores because purchasing online is cheaper.Again, here at ENWorld, numerous store owners have pointed out in thread after thread that online mega-retailers like Amazon sell books for less than the FLGSs can purchase them for.  The physical stores don't have the same purchasing power as do the Amazons, etc. of the world, so they don't get the kind of discounts Amazon does.  And Amazon simply doesn't have the same overhead issues that your FLGS does.Now, I'm not saying that the store you mention is following a business plan doomed to fail.  But it may not be a business model that is going to work in the long run for most FLGSs.  We have no idea how many gamers feel that Amazon is all they need.  There is no way of telling how many people feel that pressure to buy out of politeness.The success or failure of such a business plan depends upon exactly what that ratio does.  The more gamers who don't feel the extra cost of buying a game book at their FLGS over Amazon, the less sustainable that model becomes.</blockquote>

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