GordonKane
New Member
I knew after the February 2003 stockholders meeting that WotC stores would cease operation and close after Xmas 2003 -- and I posted exactly that on the old WotC incarnation of the PokeGym.
And boy did the fans FLAME me (and oddly, Boozer, Gills, and Pat were quiet). It was pretty obvious Hasbro didn't know how to retail the items they made.
I saw the wheels of closure in motion after WotC expanded into Texas, opening a store in Fort Worth and Hurst -- but never following through with the store in Plano (abandoned in 1999). Then in 2001, the Fort Worth store sold the lease to their location to Victoria's Secret and chose not to relocate within the mall.
At 9pm, Sunday December 28, 2003 - the Hurst / North East Mall location closed.
I do not see this as a bad thing (but then I have asperations of opening a gaming location - so I'm bias about seeing an uncaring, money-grubbing retailer like WotC Stores going out of business).
And boy did the fans FLAME me (and oddly, Boozer, Gills, and Pat were quiet). It was pretty obvious Hasbro didn't know how to retail the items they made.
I saw the wheels of closure in motion after WotC expanded into Texas, opening a store in Fort Worth and Hurst -- but never following through with the store in Plano (abandoned in 1999). Then in 2001, the Fort Worth store sold the lease to their location to Victoria's Secret and chose not to relocate within the mall.
At 9pm, Sunday December 28, 2003 - the Hurst / North East Mall location closed.
I do not see this as a bad thing (but then I have asperations of opening a gaming location - so I'm bias about seeing an uncaring, money-grubbing retailer like WotC Stores going out of business).