Yes, I do... it's a place where companies throw money into the bottmless
pit of "no return on investment" it's a place where they COULD be moving
product - as well as providing a pleasant environment wherein people could
experience their offerings in a relaxed manner - but choose not to, so that
their resources can be sucked dry by having to fund OTHER venues through
which they actually sell their stuff. Please reference Gateway computer
stores... a nice, relaxed place where you could look at/play with/demo
their computers, but not actually buy something & take it home - something
that people have, oddly enough, become accustomed to expecting from a
"STORE"... any of those places left? Nope.

You can't draw an exact parallel. AR was not in retail sales; Gateway was. AR
could not be competing with its own dealers.