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johnnyFive  ·  2559 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'People aren't spending': stores close doors in 'oversaturated' US retail market

Exactly. I was never really into comics, but I at least vaguely knew the guy who ran the comic shop in the next town over since that's where we got all our RPG sourcebooks.

Gaming shops are the classic example: the places people go to play games and hang out. My brother used to spend hours at the local comic shop playing 40K, and got to know a lot of people there. Sadly that place too went under....