"The new location does seem more comfortable and is probably more comfortable for your players, but we're not concerned with the comfort of players, we're concerned with getting people in and getting them buying our products."'
How is NOT giving a 100-player based LGS access to magic products going to increase their sales?!
This is what I call a retailtard. My local Games Workshop before I went to university had its manager moved to a larger store in my final year of A levels, the new guy turned up on a saturday and said "No gaming in this store anymore". This was after the regulars had all turned up to game, and we had known for over a month we were getting a new manager and at no point had this ever been said before. A guy had traveled from over the river from Cornwall to come and game cus the old manager had made the store so good. You know what happened to sales on that saturday compared to usual saturdays? They plummeted because the regular gamers who had just been told the store was now basically only a retail space apart from gaming night on thursdays stayed in the store all day *****ing about the no gaming. Which drove away any new gamers/customers. I even got banned by telling him he could have informed us ahead of time and that most of the kids who come in on saturdays are too young for gamers evening since it was for 16+ which meant that they would be forced out of the hobby. And a lot of these kids had parents chucking money at them to spend on the hobby cus it got them away from their computers.
Best bit about the being banned though, he didn't tell me to my face. I left at 6 when the store closed with everyone else, but when I stopped in to say hello to people on my way home from school next week, I was told I was banned from the shop. He apparantly claimed various crap about me "DEMANDING A TABLE FROM UPSTAIRS" which was impossible because A) I know the store wouldn't have room for that and B) We already have 3 gaming tables, he just wouldn't let them be used.
But that's another story. The most important bit is how due to this ban of gaming, the store was eventually closed until it could find another manager because he "Chose to move to another job." and not because he was "Fired because he sold less in a year than the store used to sell in a month." The new manager was good, but sadly the damage had been done and most of the players had cashed out and moved into MTG at a store which had luckily opened at the perfect time as the manager had been alienating the playerbase. As such, the store closed permanently last year.
In other words, much like the GW manager, this guy seems more concerned with sales than promoting the hobby. Which in turn has reduced sales. Why don't people get that a healthy hobby shop with regular players drives sales. Heck, on tuesday I saw a bunch of regulars play the lottery with MM2015, the same players who when I started going who advised me of buying singles instead of packs cus packs were never worth it. They were doing it cus it was fun to do in the store with all the people watching what they'd get.
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This is what I call a retailtard. My local Games Workshop before I went to university had its manager moved to a larger store in my final year of A levels, the new guy turned up on a saturday and said "No gaming in this store anymore". This was after the regulars had all turned up to game, and we had known for over a month we were getting a new manager and at no point had this ever been said before. A guy had traveled from over the river from Cornwall to come and game cus the old manager had made the store so good. You know what happened to sales on that saturday compared to usual saturdays? They plummeted because the regular gamers who had just been told the store was now basically only a retail space apart from gaming night on thursdays stayed in the store all day *****ing about the no gaming. Which drove away any new gamers/customers. I even got banned by telling him he could have informed us ahead of time and that most of the kids who come in on saturdays are too young for gamers evening since it was for 16+ which meant that they would be forced out of the hobby. And a lot of these kids had parents chucking money at them to spend on the hobby cus it got them away from their computers.
Best bit about the being banned though, he didn't tell me to my face. I left at 6 when the store closed with everyone else, but when I stopped in to say hello to people on my way home from school next week, I was told I was banned from the shop. He apparantly claimed various crap about me "DEMANDING A TABLE FROM UPSTAIRS" which was impossible because A) I know the store wouldn't have room for that and B) We already have 3 gaming tables, he just wouldn't let them be used.
But that's another story. The most important bit is how due to this ban of gaming, the store was eventually closed until it could find another manager because he "Chose to move to another job." and not because he was "Fired because he sold less in a year than the store used to sell in a month." The new manager was good, but sadly the damage had been done and most of the players had cashed out and moved into MTG at a store which had luckily opened at the perfect time as the manager had been alienating the playerbase. As such, the store closed permanently last year.
In other words, much like the GW manager, this guy seems more concerned with sales than promoting the hobby. Which in turn has reduced sales. Why don't people get that a healthy hobby shop with regular players drives sales. Heck, on tuesday I saw a bunch of regulars play the lottery with MM2015, the same players who when I started going who advised me of buying singles instead of packs cus packs were never worth it. They were doing it cus it was fun to do in the store with all the people watching what they'd get.