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I think the problem is the consolidation of distribution. Today a handful of purchasing agents at WalMart/Sams, Amazon, Costco, BestBuy, Fry's, etc., represent 90% or more of the retail distribution of consumer electronics. The old days when every city had two or three "TV and appliance" stores, two or three "car stereo" stores, some upscale audiophile stores -- all of them locally owned -- are gone. So the whole purpose of having a trade show has pretty much disspated. The 'little guys' are still out there, but they're so little that it's not worth your trouble to go to Las Vegas and put up a booth and pull your sales force out of the field for a week to go see them.
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