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I visited the FLGS in Portland last month and it was messy chaos
Everyone always raves about Guardian Games out in Portland but I finally went there last month and honestly I was disappointed. The place was huge yeah but the aisles were so tight you couldn't pass anyone and there were stacks of boxes just sitting on the floor. I tripped over a Dominion expansion near the RPG section that someone clearly just dumped there. The staff seemed nice but they were all behind the counter on their phones instead of helping customers or organizing anything. I get that big game stores are supposed to have that cluttered feel but this was just messy and hard to shop in. Does anyone else prefer smaller tidy shops over these hyped up warehouse style stores?
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the_mary28d ago
YES that reminds me of this time I went to a con in Seattle and thought I hit the jackpot finding a game store near the convention center. It was this packed little hole in the wall place with barely room to turn around but everything was organized PERFECTLY. Boxes stacked neat as pins on the shelves, prices clearly marked, and the owner actually walked me through their whole used game section while we talked about old school RPGs. Smaller shops just have that personal touch that these big box stores totally miss. I think cluttered stores can work if there's some method to the chaos but most of them just let stuff pile up until it looks like a hoarder situation. That Dominion box on the floor thing you mentioned would have driven me NUTS.
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david56228d ago
Were the prices actually decent or did being near the con jack them way up?
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james_campbell1228d ago
Wait, does anyone else feel personally attacked by that Dominion box thing? Because I nearly tripped over a stack of random board games at a store last month and my first thought was "this is fine" but my second thought was "nope, I'm just as messy at home as this place is." My own game closet is a disaster zone, boxes stacked every which way with missing pieces hidden somewhere in the abyss. So maybe I'm the last person who should be judging a store for having a messy floor. But man, when you find that one shop that's cramped but clean it really makes up for all the others doesn't it?
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