Floppies and comic shops

When the 90's crash happened, it effectively killed the floppy market outside of comic stores. Stores aren't going to carry a product that will sit on shelves indefinitely. Magazines in general also don't sell in the US anymore, and the highest selling format for comics are graphic novels (tankobons in weeb) since you don't get fucked by the price. Seriously, 4 dollars for 20 pages when I can pay 10 for around 150?

>and I bet they’d beg their parents for floppies if they saw them in stores too.
You would be horribly wrong, modern floppies have basically 0 appeal to anyone under the age of 24.
They've spent too long courting the same aging audience, the reason you don't see floppies in grocery stores and the like is because they just don't sell enough to justify stocking them, since it's not like many comic book nerds spend a lot of time at the grocery store.

They used to be. And now Walmart is trying to do the same...and they just sit in the worst places to do so. Like random places in the electronics section and nowhere near the games or books, in that messy ass area between checkout lines, or in toy isles above children's eye level.

Most haven't. I myself being a late millennial who never visits comic shops have only ever seen 2 or 3 comics at local grocery stores and this was in the early 00's. Archie comics I remember seeing a lot at checkouts. Then there was once a promotional comic I got for some kind of kids movie because it came with 3D glasses. Funny enough Walmart's reading section used to carry the new issues of shonen jump every month back then too. And even it's sister version that was made for girls. I have like 6 issues somewhere all from Walmart. For years I checked out the reading isle every now and then but I haven't seen any manga or comics since. My best guess is American zoomers have only seen paperback comics for purchase at scholastic book fairs, if they still have those. I know regular bookstores sell manga, not sure about comics. School libraries tend to carry a selection of hard spine graphic novels, but not comics. Unironically if comics had a big page count, were more book sized with a thicker hard spine, they could also end up in libraries right beside mangas. I think a floppy thin little magazine's worth of content will simply never be as appealing. Intuition would say a consumer would rather enjoy something short and easy to consume. But for some reason with reading, people would rather have a bigger page count. Magazine style format makes something look more like all the other worthless gossip rags on the rack which have also vanished recently by the way because nobody thinks they're worth the money.

I was there December, January, July, and August
Navy stuff

Personally never seen manga in a grocery store, then again I don't go down the magazine/book isle so I'll check it out next time.
I will say I've always known them to have ARCHIE DIGEST books.

I also remember Walmart used to sell some kinda comic bundles and even has some bundles with exclusive comic stories from DC.

>scholastic book fairs
We still have those, but I’ve never seen floppies at them haha
But there was stuff like Marvel Adventures. It was like a manga volume in length and size but colored and they had best gurl

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Good to hear, my favorite time of year was the scholastic book fair because they sold cool merch, manga and comics. In my time they had floppies, but if they don't anymore, that tells me they didn't do well. It sounds like floppies just don't have appeal, kids must want more content for their buck.

>and Marvel doesn't offer any good stories like manga do.
wrote this backwards I presume?

Are you implying that Marvel offers good stories?

I didn’t write that at all