Originally Posted by imjonah
If you are going to have an onsite Hobby Shop, you should follow standard industry practice and make sure your barriers are as hard and rigid as possible, to maximise damage to customer's cars. A really hard piece of wood or concrete at the end of the long straight, can generate an extra $200 in parts sales a month, all by itself.
Let's say my LHS runs a R/C race track and follows this "standard industry practice" you write about, I would definatly buy my spare parts online or try to find somewhere else to race. I would NOT support a LHS who doesn't support its customers or uses such practices.