I think that you are correct that management reads this message board.
The last words that I remember Norm saying to me about 3 weeks ago after the closing hours, and somewhat sarcastically I thought, was that he would be going home on a bike.
I thought this was an odd thing to say to me since I did not ask him how he was going home.
If you can recollect, I had used almost those same words on this message board when I returned from my first visit to Trendsetter - something like - "Norm went home on a bike and not in a Fiat".
I know that there is a general meeting among management between 4:30 and 5:00 pm and I would not be surprised if they used this time to read message boards since a lot of their revenue to pay for their new products was from the sale of stocks.