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Or fondle the merchandise, pick your brain, special order a $2.99 item, and buy all the rest of their stuff mail-order or on eBay. Don't envy you, and to think I almost opened a hobby shop in Raleigh, NC 10 years ago. Every hobby shop in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill metro area selling trains,. incl 'HobbyTown' , have failed and closed their doors except an RC store and an overpriced model/craft store in the mall with little train inventory and minimum wage help w/out any interest or knowledge about what their 'selling'. Why did that happen? Lack of market ?(approx 1 million live in metro shopping area), lack of interest ?(possibly-college basketball and golf rein supreme, although there are approx 3 model railroad clubs in area), Lack of RR prototype?(don't think so (Amtrak,CSX and NS all serve area now; Southern, Seaboard, N&W branch, orig. NS, Durham & Southern, and other shortlines used to operate in the area.) Bad management /poor customer support and service /lack of required business skills responsible? (My vote says Yup). Lack of disposable income? ( (Another , but qualified Yup-this was a dot.com town to a significant degree, houses shot up in price but not value, you know the scenario- and the money seemed to dry up-people make choices and model railroads were apparently not on their top ten list-at least buying from a local hobby shop, even on their credit cards . "You load sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store"
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