(Standard disclaimer - The views reflected herein are mine, only mine, and do not reflect the views of anyone else, especially not my current employer or anyone I may have interacted with at any point in the last ten years or so...)

For nearly a decade I've been a ret...

A few weeks back I wrote about a survey that Jamey Stegmaier had shared the results of in his own blog and called into question the methodology in which the numbers were derived. Jamey put me into contact with Joe, who shared some of the information from the survey, an...

Hey! Long time no see! I've had this problem where I've been busy working on my business and haven't had a ton of time to talk about the industry as a whole. I hope to rectify that over the next month or so and dig into some topics that I've wanted to discuss, but my p...

Wow, been a while since I've had something I really wanted to write about, but recently a topic has come up repeatedly that I think deserves a conversation. That topic is one of leadership. As the leaders in our stores we can make and break culture, and that culture ca...

There is truly no such thing as neutrality. I firmly believe that, despite what you hear from the nice people at the Swiss Consulate if you go for a visit. Failure to pick a side is a failure. This holds true in every segment of our lives, but holds especially true wit...

A couple weeks back I was at ACD GamesDay, one of the many trade shows I attend every year, and had some random stream of consciousness thoughts during the event. Today, I shall share them with.

First though, let's start by saying that ACD GamesDay has long been my favo...

I've been at this a while. I remember struggling through "Expansion Year", when there were no decent board game releases and all I could sell was Widow's Walk, over and over. In 2017 the paradigm shifted to 3,000 new board games in a year. From that 3,000 it was on eac...

I have written in the past about the issues surrounding Hasbro, and in particular, Magic: The Gathering, over the last couple of years. It frequently appears to me that they still believe players are ATMs, just dispensing money for every new product that comes out. Tha...

My travel schedule sometimes feels insanely hectic. In 2018 I've spent time in Portland, Reno, Columbus, Atlanta, which makes for a light first quarter of the year, but now it ramps up. I have flights currently booked to Madison, back to Columbus, San Diego, and Indian...

Sorry, the airquotes are probably mean, but I have a lot of friends who do this in other countries, and they don't get the same stuff we do, so this event is a little less international that certain people would have you believe.

That though, is neither here nor there....