Hasbro Stock from a Small Game Store Owner's Perspective

[@endtimestcg5146]

Thanks Greats insights!

[@alexmellinger2681]

Nice to see another game store looking out for their community. I have managed a small store for almost a decade and I feel like I am watching our early days as a store and hearing about the same struggles and victories we have all been though. :) An idea for liquidating your Jumpstart boxes/boosters, host a learn to play event that is the same price of three boosters. Have the players mash two jumpstart packs together, as they are intended to be used, and play a swiss tourney with them. Then you can decide to award each player a prize pack for participating, or distribute the packs to those who finish x-1 or x-0 in the event. If you dont already, and it sounds like space is limited, but talk to your distributors about donating a few freebees to help with learn to play events. Then you can also have door prizes and give people something to walk away from outside of the cards they got from the two packs. Sometimes you have to gently let down the people who show up looking to spike the tournament, and if that happens, then just award the packs to each participant. Some people just see an event like this as an opportunity to walk away with 10 or so packs for the price of 3, and at the end of the day, that's not the spirit of what an event should be about, ever.

[@BoardGamingwithEducation]

Hey Alex, thank you for the suggestions and insight! I think jumpstart is actually an excellent product but it wasn’t executing very well with Dominaría and the upcoming Brothers War. It would be a much better product if they threw some cards in their that magic players wanted as well as being a good beginner product. We do offer a pretty flat prizing structure. 1-3 win a little more than the rest of the players and we always do a fun game and raffle at the end of the event. Usually first is excluded from any raffle at the end too. We might try to pull off some cool holiday gift packs for different gamers. We’ll likely throw some jumpstart packs in there too. Hope that helps us move some product as well!