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Who the hell has
100 employees operating 3 small retail stores?
They're not just a retailer
They're a manufacturer, too (hmm, can use a 3D printer to make a 3D printer?), so not all of those jobs were at the stores.
"The now-shuttered brick-and
"The now-shuttered brick-and-mortar stores, located in Manhattan, Boston, and Greenwich, Connecticut, followed an Apple Store model, with sales, demos, classes, and even providing in-store printing services. No news yet on their retail partnerships with outlets such as Home Depot."
The 100 employees were spread out over the Manhattan and Greenwich stores as well as Newbury Street. With the rise of 3D printer bobble head dolls, it's hard to imagine why these stores failed to thrive.
yes you can
Yes, you can make a 3-D printer from a 3-D printer, or at least the plastic parts. I saw a video of someone who makes and sells 3-D printer kits. He had several printers going, constructing the frame parts for the printers.
Not really surprising, I went
Not really surprising, I went in there once, talked to some employees, asked some questioned, looked at the equipment on display. It was cool, but it was more like walking into a museum than a retail store. I certainly had no business to conduct there and it didn't seem like anyone else coming in did either, which is no way to keep an expensive Newbury Street storefront open.
Newbury
My 2 cents would be Newbury Street and an Apple Store model might just be a lousy location for such an animal.
I'd have assumed they would have though to grab some spot in the Red Line corridor between Kendall and Davis, as I think young technical maker types are more likely to be found in abundance there than on Newbury Street.
I figure if Radio Shack could survive as long as they have, as clueless as they have been, a brick and mortar 3D maker store should be able to find its market.