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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by grayfox1119 Will it hurt the LHS's? To a small degree, they will lose out on the small, cheap train sets for birthdays and Christmas. The serious modelers will still go to LHS for someone who KNOWS what they are selling, not a person MY age handing out smiley faces <h4> ZZZIIIINNNG</h4> at Wallyworld. I am waiting for some smart young man to open a new brand of stores called HOBBY-MART, where they will carry all the leading brands, have everything that you need for MRR'g as well as other hobbies, and be INTERNATIONAL with stores everywhere. Sort of like BestBuy, but strictly all hobby and supplies. DREAM ON YOU SILLY BOY !! [/quote] I like the hobbymart idea, however our hobby still doesn't have the momentum to make such a thing profitable. And contrary to what we'd all like to believe in our warm fuzzy happy places, if you build it they will NOT come. LHS's seeing gains from an increase of people in the hobby due to cheaper starter sets at WalMart? Couldn't possibly see it. Maybe one or two people out of a town of 50,000. The kid that gets a WalMart trainset for the holidays from his folks is being raised in a society telling him to shop for the best deal. And come on, these are kids we're talking about. If they want to get further into the hobby the LHS is the last place they'll go. This is a generation of kids being raised on the internet, and that's where they'll wind up doing their shopping down the road. If they don't have any sort of loyalty to their LHS to begin with, why should they start over-paying now? I'm not saying I begrudge the LHS, I still make an effort to go out of my way and spend a certain amount of my budget in there. But for what it's worth and despite not being what a lot of folks want to hear...the LHS is a dying breed. I do sadly believe its days are numbered.
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