I went to a tabletop game store to look at their board games.
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I went to a tabletop game store to look at their board games. Asked the guy for recommendations for 2 player games.
"I don't know anything we have stocked anymore. The tariffs have killed the board game business, so all our popular games are gone. One of the big manufacturers went bankrupt already.
"If you want to know how bad it is, take [some popular game]. We used to stock it for $70-75. Everything ships in through the US, and since it's all made in China, after all the tariffs, we're looking at $220-250 for the same game.
"The industry is dead. We're not stocking any new board games until the market comes back to life. Who knows? Maybe Canada will start manufacturing our own games again! I guess we'll have to see."
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I went to a tabletop game store to look at their board games. Asked the guy for recommendations for 2 player games.
"I don't know anything we have stocked anymore. The tariffs have killed the board game business, so all our popular games are gone. One of the big manufacturers went bankrupt already.
"If you want to know how bad it is, take [some popular game]. We used to stock it for $70-75. Everything ships in through the US, and since it's all made in China, after all the tariffs, we're looking at $220-250 for the same game.
"The industry is dead. We're not stocking any new board games until the market comes back to life. Who knows? Maybe Canada will start manufacturing our own games again! I guess we'll have to see."
Someone put together a list of board game publishing companies that have gone under/are struggling from 3 months ago. I presume the list of longer now.
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