Hearing some grumbling from my local store .. asmodee is up to shenanigans.

Apparently, they're increasing the cuts they're asking for on credit card sales of their products (and asking for a bigger cut of base sales). From how it was explained to me, they're increasing income per sale by 4%, which eats into any profit the store may make. Vendor prices also went up quite a bit.

It's to the point that my local game store is looking at other options for getting stock (like going through Amazon and buying their stuff at consumer prices and reselling it to ticket price, as they may make an actual profit that way). They're not even carrying much asmodee stock anymore due to this hike.

Has any other store experienced this? This is worrying as a practice, and may hurt a lot of asmodee properties as we move out of covid life. Is there anything us consumers can do without hurting our local stores?