Arranger keyboards here in the USA...just do not sell well in MI stores..Sales people don't know what they do and they don't want to know what they do..
Most Pro keyboard players are snobs when it comes to arranger keyboards...The same Pros that use three boards ..one to play left hand bass and one or two others to play right hands sounds...throw in a dedicated drum machine..These same Pros can't figure out that the arranger keyboard makes their set ups obsolete, and why they can not see the benefit of a single arranger is beyond me..
For years as a dealer and fellow musician, I have been banging my head against the wall trying to enlighten these Pros..

You know what? It is their loss..

Back to why The CK[Roland} home piano stores received the option to sell the Roland arrangers here in the USA...It is simple, the CK dealers have a different mentality when it comes to marketing keyboards...First, they make a profit[and I don't mean 15%]..On average they know how to sell, if not product knowledge, at least people knowledge..When you sell to the home market..you sell the "sizzle, not the steak"..otherwise the benefits the new owner will enjoy...not what the board does for the other guys.

If you look at the numbers, I think you will see the VA7 sold in CK stores out sold the VA76 sold in IM stores..and by a wide margin...and guess what the CK dealers found it profitable..

Sure there are exceptions as George Kaye's store, but that is rare.

Sam Ash doesn't want to be bothered with high end arrangers,,neither does Guitar center, and a million other MI stores..