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    Default Where Should the Next DP Videogames Store Be?

    Before I delve into the meat of this - if you have no frame of reference at all, there is the store page which has loads of info and pictures, just see my signature below.

    This first store is doing really well. I have great people who can practically run the store without me, which just gets me onto the five-year plan a little sooner than I expected, opening a second store. I think about this a lot. Would it be better if it's a place that I can frequently travel to (NJ/NY/CT/PA) or better to really space it out and let it run via training (I could really use a 3 month hiatus to California, for example ) and infrequent visits?

    What area really NEEDS a shop like this? I am quite serious about expansion but won't just leap in - how can I overtake GameStop with willy-nilly decision-making?

    Thoughts welcome...

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    In the UK :P Make it worldwide!!!
    Heh nah, i wouldnt be able to say, only visted a few states on holiday. Good to hear all is going well though and all the best for the next store!

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    alabama only has a few stores that sell classic games. you wouldnt have much competition down here...other than gamestop/eb

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    Stuart, Florida. There's no gamestore here for about 20 minutes, and I'd work there in a heartbeat. ;-)


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    Put one in Pittsburgh...then maybe I'd finally go up and see a Pirates game. I could make it a buy games & see a baseball game dual purpose trip.

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    There is a HUGE market in Chicago that is totally unserved. Sean Kelly's store is extremely far west and out of view to the majority of the city. A DP store based in Lincoln Park, or Wrigleyville (near Wrigley Field) would be HUGE. I'm a former EB/GameStop DM--and I personally petiotioned for a store in this location multiple times. But, since that megacorp doesn't listen to their employees it never happened. Here's why it would be a guaranteed success:

    1. 25-45 Male demo here is HUGE and there is a TON of expendable income
    2. Rents have dropped, making a large store feasible on the right street
    3. There is not an EB or Gamestop ANYWHERE nearby
    4. Chicago is extremely under-served in regards to what DP offers
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    I would keep it close (30-45 minutes) to the original store. In addition to the things you mentioned about it being close for you to check on and take care of, that would also be the case for your current employees. You say that your current store can "be practically run without you", so take the most qualified/trusted person and make him or her manager of the new store. Or just continue to trust them to take care of things while you are spending most of your time getting the new location up to speed.

    Plus you wouldn't have to familiarize yourself with new/different state laws and business regulations. Nothing I'm familiar with, just assuming it's little different once you cross a state line.
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    The greater Baltimore/Washington DC metro area has a great community of classic gamers and virtually no classic gaming stores. Even our pawn shops and flea markets are weak or non-existent when it comes to games. We pretty much have to rely on sites like this and eBay.

    I'd really like to see a digitpress store around here. We could really use a store that caters to classic and next gen needs. On top of that, it is only a short few hours to the original in NJ!
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    Evansville, Indiana. Almost no game stores. The one's they do have are orverpriced.
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    Albany, Georgia. EB owns all three of our game stores, and they are horrible.
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    Indianapolis, for obvious reasons.

    (Plus we have one mom & pop left and it's a shell of it's former self.)

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    some place in lansdale PA or Blue Bell. There are a TON of people in the market for games around here. Plenty of money to be spent as well as far as blue bell folks are concerned.

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    Dayton, Ohio is in serious need of a DP. Little children cry at night because there isn't one here. Please stop the tears and bring DP here. =)

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    Palm Coast, FL

    The city is in Flagler County, FL.

    One of the fastest growing places in the U.S.

    Good place to set up shop.

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    Joe, the Nashville/Smryna/Murfreeboro area. There are tons of colleges out there (Belmont, Vanderbilt, Middle Tennessee State) and none of the music/record/game swaps have a good concentration of old school/new school. Most of the video game stores are GameStop/EB/Rhino in malls and such, and Game Trader is too far away from the colleges.

    Sean Kelly's brother has a store in Gallatin (North of Nashville about 30-ish miles) which is also a Video Games Etc.

    Besides, if you have one in TN, I can help with it, won't have to worry about people not knowing about pricing since I am moving there in May

    Oh yeah, and Murfreesboro is the fastest growing city in TN, and in the top 3 of fastest growing in the United States. MTSU has the largest undergraduate student body in the state (more than the University of Tennessee.)
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    Asheville, NC of coarse. We've got fresh air, beautiful scenery and lot's of people with plenty of cash to throw around. The only competition would be the former Rhino, which now does not deal in any retro material, and a very small privately owned operation, which also bases most of their business on the more current systems.
    Of coarse, logically, you'll be more apt to locate your possible new store in one of the major metropolises in the country (i.e. Chicago, L.A., D.C., San Fran, Atlanta, ect)
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    Nice representation from the east so far. I should have mentioned that one area I wouldn't move anywhere NEAR driving distance of is Sean's place, now called "Videogames Now and Then" in Norridge, IL. West or east, if it's the Chi-town area it's off-limits. If it weren't for Sean, I wouldn't have a FIRST store!

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    While I would LOVE to see a DP store out here in So-Cal/LA, (I could help decorate it..) are you sure that the distance might not be too far a reach from you 1st. store? If the Warm Chocolate Puddin' hits the fan here on the west coast, what would be your response time?

    Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see you again Joe, and shop at DP West, but I'd rather see 2 successful DP stores that I can't get to, than one nearby that might be too far from the owner.
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    How about the part of IL that isn't Chicago?

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