A long time back I used to work at HMV in London's Oxford Street. When I started they'd just begun stocking video games - mostly Amiga, Atari ST and PC titles.
This was the year Captain Planet came out and was hotly tipped to be THE game that Xmas. When I came on board they were looking for someone to head up the games dept. - I knew pretty much everything there was to know about games at that time but had very little retail experience (particularly on that scale) so most of my purchasing was pretty small - 5 of this, 10 of that.
Coming up to Christmas though I was worried we were gonna run out of stock of key titles so I made a list of these key products and gave it to a manager (Mike something-or-other) to take care of the levels. BIG MISTAKE.
Mike was used to ordering top-selling CDs, videos and vinyl - It was pretty distressing when Captain Planet came in and it was absolute @#!$ - what was more distressing was that Mike had ordered 1000+ copies... Man, I couldn't give 'em away - they sat on the shelves for YEARS... They're probably in a landfill now...
