Re: [GZG] Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi!

Ground Zero Games wrote:
> One of the things that did a lot to sour GW's reputation in the UK 
> was their practice in the '90s of finding a town with a good, healthy 
> independent games shop and initially supporting them up to the hilt, 
> giving them loads of incentives to become a major GW stockist (often 
> to the detriment of other lines they had been carrying) - then as 
> soon as GW's marketing boys saw that said independent's sales of 
> their product were up to a certain level, they would move into the 
> same town with one of their own stores and effectively withdraw (or 
> at least massively downgrade) their support for the independent 
> store. 
I saw exactly this happen here in Canberra. The week after a GW shop 
opened up 100 metres from the Independant, their orders started getting 
lost or misplaced too,

Zoe

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