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Originally Posted by vsp
Seemingly lost on him was the notion that if a game sits on the shelf, forever unsold, the potential return on the investment doesn't matter; the ACTUAL return is <b>ZERO</b>.
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At Mrs. Dallas' last job they had a semi-annual sale. She shocked the senior management when she once designated a table of stuff as "music by the pound." You see, in order to get the best pricing, they had to buy a lot of the new releases from different publishers. (I'm vague on the details here so don't hold me to it.) As a result they ended up with a fair amount of back stock that they weren't likely to ever sell. Since this stuff was taking up warehouse and shelf space, getting it out the door and getting some small amount of money for it, rather than letting it take up space until it was literally thrown out, seemed to be a good idea. Management didn't seem to agree--to this day if I ever feel like having one or more of my bodily appendages removed I can just bring up the subject of "music by the pound" to set her off.
(Meanwhile the store was run into the ground and eventually closed after the company was sold, both of which were writ large on the wall for some time even prior to her departure. The president of the company, who presided over the death of these stores, and whose father was chairman of the board, is currently running for the local township council on a platform of a) run government like a business and b) get rid of cronyism in the township.)