Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores

Re:Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores by ChrisMarshallNY on Friday June 26, 2020 @11:09AM (#23652824)

That happens in many stores. I call them "store groupies." Around here, vape stores have them in droves. I remember them hanging around Science-Fiction bookstores; often using the back rooms to have D&D games.

I think that every one of them becomes a customer, eventually. Many of them become evangelists, which can sometimes be even more valuable.

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Re:Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores by braythwayt on Friday June 26, 2020 @04:01PM (#23656319)

There was a "Byte Store" on Queen West in Toronto in the early days of personal computers.

There were--cough--a number of teenagers hanging around like groupies. One of them--cough--may even have installed their heavily customized SuperStarTrek game, and had it become the store's favourite demo.

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Re:Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores by k12sosse on Friday June 26, 2020 @11:46AM (#23653292)

and store employees call them "loiterers". A herd of human waste, with no money or no intent to purchase anything.

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Re:Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores by hedora on Friday June 26, 2020 @12:07PM (#23653554)

If this is a problem, then don’t pay the employees based on commissions, and train them to make such people feel welcome to ask questions, play with demo machines, etc.

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