"The mall is renting space to people who hope to sell things. My guess is that at least some of the chessplayers occasionally need something that is for sale at that mall or elsewhere. Chasing them elsewhere is foolish."
And sadly, you too are living in a dream land.
I guess in your vision, it would be ok for the chess players to set up some tables in the middle of a home depot store, because some day they'd eventually buy something.
Sheesh.
I guess in your vision, it would be ok for the chess players to set up some tables in the middle of a home depot store, because some day they'd eventually buy something.
My "dream world" has something called probability. The chessplayers at Home Depot might make one or two purchases a year and they probably would have gone to Home Depot for those anyway. But the mall chessplayers would probably make one purchase at the mall for every five days of chess that they would have purchased elsewhere.
It's really sad when someone gets stuck on a wrong idea and starts making fun of the folks who correct him.
(Why do you think coffee shops set up wifi hotspots? Aren't itinerant laptop users pretty much the same as chessplayers?)
ML/NJ