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Originally Posted by duke knooby
how is that misleading?? if you can sell 12 meat loaf records a month, how is it commerically viable to buy in and hold in stock 30 records???
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Misleading only to those who go in and see a stack of 5 and think the album isn't selling at all. Meanwhile it could have been reordered and restocked between visits to a store. And believe me they exist. I've overheard the conversations/erroneous observations.
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Originally Posted by duke knooby
when you go into a record store, do you browse the new releases, and often purchase from there? do you browse the chart, and often purchase from there? do you go to check whats in your favourite artists section, and often purchase from there?
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I browse everything...time permitting
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Originally Posted by duke knooby
why would you promote meats new album in your store when the record company will pay you to place someone elses album in the prime selling space in your store???
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IMO, the only scenario applicable to this question would be mom and pop record shops which don't exist in my 100 mile radius. However, if it were my mom and pop store and I loved certain artists, you can bet that I would promote the heck out of that artist at my shop. Unfortunately, in corporate it is about the $ paid per sq. ft. of space and the prime location is given to the records who pony up the most $.
You know, at the beginning of the title of HCTB, Meat's vision was for people to walk past a poster in a record shop and pause for 3 seconds right? Well, unfortunately commercial record shops don't have promo posters anymore (not in the states anyway). It's very feng shui contemporary coffee shop generic blah. Best Buy is basically an electronic warehouse with no p.o.p. either, Target has it's own decor and Walmart too. All of which are, unfortunately, the anti-Meat vision.