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"Christian Treczoks" <ct@braehler.com> wrote in message
news:Hvoy1q.24Fz@lugnet.com...
> Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> > Why is it that (acording to an official page at lego.com), Russia (of
> > all places) is getting a Lego Store (in moscow) but countries with
> > probobly a much greater market (e.g. Australia or Canada) arent?
> Well, first and foremost it would be a sensible and intelligent decision
> to open stores in places where there are actual customers for the given
> product. And the first thing one seems to learn at the manager school is
> to avoid sensible and intelligent decisions.
>
> This idea fits nicely with the long list of increasigly stupid business
> decisions in the last years (Juniorisation, Duplo/Explore, New Colours,
> etc). There seems to be an internal Track and Field among the managers
> about who can cook up the most ridiculus idea or the best way to ruin
> the shop.
>
> One can only pray that Kjeld puts a stop to all this lunacy.
Hmm, I wonder if Moscow gets a LEGO brand retail store because a definite
market is perceived, but perhaps there aren't good retail partners to get
the product into Russia. Most other countries have well established toy
retailers with global connections.
Frank
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