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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 826848, member: 19065&quot;]<i><b>fret:</b></i></p><p><i><b><br /></b></i></p><p>Less packaging... only if the Mint has a &#039;service window&#039; set up so there is no store for the customer to shop or pick and choose one set of coins over another hoping for better coin conditions. </p><p><br /></p><p>As it is now, phone, internet and mail options are first come first serve with no opportunity of the customer to cherry pick off a shelf. You get what the fulfillment center sends you, good or bad. </p><p><br /></p><p>If retail locations existed, they&#039;d need to create more protective packaging and the kind that can&#039;t be opened in store plus have security features introduced <i>unless</i> they hold all products behind the counter until check out and give no choice as to what product out of the inventory you receive for a given product purchased. </p><p><br /></p><p>Shipping supplies and fees would persist with phone, internet and mail services but in retail locations those same costs wouldn&#039;t disappear but rather add to the expenses of in-store overhead: employee salaries, shopping bags, cashier equipment, utility bills, security... Distribution (mailing the product to the retail location) would continue to be a cost paid by the customer. </p><p><br /></p><p>A retail Mint location isn&#039;t going to offer savings to either the Mint or the customer, but it may improve sales and customer relations given a retail locations prescience. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have visions of coin release dates generating queues like the latest Star Wars film has geeks waiting on lawn chairs for the first mid-night showing... or Boss tickets... or Walmart on Black Friday...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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