[KarenFaz]

Hiya,

Think Lew would probably agree, Burnley did have a shop in Burnley town centre right next door to Marks and Sparks but it shut down after 7 months.

I know they have recently refurbished their club shop and have introduced new lines, but they can afford to I guess, but you can bet your bottom dollar come Christmas they'll be stock there that hasn't been sold and maybe getting sold at trade price just to get rid.

At our level, it's not a means to an end and every penny counts, so justifying new lines of products is vey difficult as there has to be a need to justify the initial outlay in the first place as a lot of places/businesses you have to buy in bulk and a lot of places do not give you any lee-way on that. Especially when you say you are a football club!!

I know when I worked at Stanley we looked into getting the old style Stanley shirts pre-60's but the initial outlay would not have covered how much we would have got back in return and in this instance that is key!

But I reckon if something does sell then in the long-run they will get it back in stock, no doubt there!!