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<p>[QUOTE="Phiwise_Offline, post: 14760"]</p><p>To be fair, I took a curious look inside a local independent comic book store recently, and they also had as much space dedicated to those frightening alien creatures and other merch as to actual comics. I guess if that's what today's visitors want, that's what you stock. Customer is always right, after all. (Although, this was also a shop in a mall, so maybe that's part of what's going on here. The self-selection of mallgoers who visit <a href="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eadb6bb83439e0d77ee009b/1589047051580-EOCLOM8DSWQCSNV5FUQV/qejGHLAbo_chd.jpg">"geek and pop culture"</a> category shops might be much more into vinyl representations of the world after Rossum's Universal Robots than the general population. I went to a different, standalone shop several years ago and didn't see much merch, thought this was a hybrid shop that also sold a lot of ttrpg stuff, so maybe that's where they make up that margin.)</p><p></p><p>And on the other hand, I am making fun of their purchasing decisions while lying next to a whole shelf of my bookshelf dedicated to displaying YuruCamp Nendoroids and Rainbow 6 Chibis, so who am I to judge? Not that that's going to stop me, of course. I mean, have you seen the things? Those empty eyes haunt my nightmares.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Phiwise_Offline, post: 14760"] To be fair, I took a curious look inside a local independent comic book store recently, and they also had as much space dedicated to those frightening alien creatures and other merch as to actual comics. I guess if that's what today's visitors want, that's what you stock. Customer is always right, after all. (Although, this was also a shop in a mall, so maybe that's part of what's going on here. The self-selection of mallgoers who visit [URL='https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eadb6bb83439e0d77ee009b/1589047051580-EOCLOM8DSWQCSNV5FUQV/qejGHLAbo_chd.jpg']"geek and pop culture"[/URL] category shops might be much more into vinyl representations of the world after Rossum's Universal Robots than the general population. I went to a different, standalone shop several years ago and didn't see much merch, thought this was a hybrid shop that also sold a lot of ttrpg stuff, so maybe that's where they make up that margin.) And on the other hand, I am making fun of their purchasing decisions while lying next to a whole shelf of my bookshelf dedicated to displaying YuruCamp Nendoroids and Rainbow 6 Chibis, so who am I to judge? Not that that's going to stop me, of course. I mean, have you seen the things? Those empty eyes haunt my nightmares. [/QUOTE]
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