Report: GameStop closing hundreds of stores in the United States
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I'm surprised they are around to this extent today. I'd have seen the trend and tried to gravitate to another business practice.
I don't know what though, given the stores, maybe try to set up a successful Internet cafe franchise?
Just have books at the front of the store about positive father relationships, that should repel them.
Also, play Sinatra outside.
Or any brat pack music for that matter.
"What kind of music is that?"
"Scat music."
"That's racist minstrel music!"
Too bad the shops aren't big enough to support those kinds of services. Seriously, it's always annoyed me how cramped those stores always were.
Gotta stuff in more product I guess.
Also I suppose every square foot of retail lease space costs more Benjamins.
Space would be pretty hard to come by even if they weren't cramming product everywhere they can fit it. Those places are tiny.
Your last paragraph illustrates the problem. There's no reason to believe they wouldn't be infested with fags and troons just like all the other community gaming spaces have been.
This model totally worked for Game Keeper!https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19990504/2958750/wizards-of-the-coast-buys-game-keeper-retail-chain
Oh. Well I'm sure Wizard's retail stores are doing fine...https://toynewsi.com/115-2490
They don’t want the concept to work. They want to extract value until they can sell it for part. Such is the life of being owned by PE.
My local GameStop started selling sports cards on half of the store and that is most their business now
Brand new ones still in the boxes/foil?
Or an honest-to-goodness glass cabinet outfit selling & trading vintage cards?
Brand new. I didn’t know they sold them til I went to turn in some PS4 games. I collect cards and coins so it’s nice to see
Mine sells magic singles now...
This is a societal problem wrapped up in your last sentence and applies to a lot: Businesses, education, careers, and relationships.
Instead of being content with some measure of success, there is this constant push from the zeitgeist that there must be more of everything.
Everyone is told that what is there and what's been attained is not enough, you must seek more.
The ingratitude for "enough" is what leads to the tower of cards eventually toppling over.
They should try to recreate & monetize Reddit, but IRL.
A place for faggots, furries, trannies, child rapists, and jews (but I repeat myself) to meet and talk about communism?
They tried that, TWICE!
Remember Dashcon and Rainfurrest?
That was really peak Internet Historian.
I feel like he fell off, but haven't been following him closely enough to know why.
Maybe slow & erratic content publishing schedule?
The last impactful video I recall was the Costa Concordia tale.
He has 3 channels, one is the main internet historian, one is called incognito (he claimed he lost password to the main channel for a while) and another called expleened that explain the plots of games. He has slowed releasing videos the last couple years though
Yeah, I'm aware of those two secondary channels thanks.
There was a time I enjoyed his shorter collab content on the Incognito channel more than his main channel longform vids (Though he did chum around with some very cringe shitlibs IIRC like Some Ordinary Things. And Sumito was less based than I hoped).
IH though, who has previously been accused of being more secretly based than he admits publicly, seemed to just peter out & disappear from the relevance of my algo without me actually unsubbing or some big controversy/bad take. Particularly for such a big time, relatively normie YT creator.
IIRC, he has some sort of serious illness.
Ooh, well, uh… it seems to have worked for them. They did a second one. A second time, even.
They're genuinely only around because of WallStreetBets. They were almost to bankruptcy when that whole thing happened, and it propped the company back up. For a little while...
The GameStops remaining in my area are in low-rent strip malls, usually next to a Walmart. The indoor mall locations all seem to be gone.
I haven't been in an enclosed mall in recent enough memory to know.
Kind of sad to see them lose their flagship locations for nostalgia purposes even if I have zero sympathy for corporate.
Similar to how depressing it is to watch Pizza Huts leave & sell their icon red top flagship locations, only to retreat to new stripmall, cookiecutter express outfits completely indistinguishable from all the other goyslop chains.
Going to these today usually is a depressing and / or dangerous experience for reasons that are a hate-crime to mention in several countries.
My childhood mall closed recently, and I went to visit it just before the last day. Hadn't been there in almost 20 years, and the difference was... stunning. Graffiti everywhere, every jewelry store had an armed guard and the display cases had obvious hammer strikes all over them, everything was in locked cases. My fatigue grew three sizes that day.
I think their biggest seller are Pokémon cards
Ah yes, the old reliable “don’t innovate, downsize!”
Pay $39.99+ taxes on a used videogame at Gamestop or $20 on Marketplace.
They have to pay rent, taxes, utilities and employees.
You're payig a very high premium for convinience of buying in store and may have a warranty on certain products. But if you're going to pay double at Gamestop, what are the odds of getting scammed twice for the same product online?
Not that Gamestop was ever the best place for good deals in the past, but it's alot worse today.
They ruined the market for used games, I hated them since day one.
GameStopGameOverGreat place to grab toys for your young family members for Christmas, dont remember the last time I bought a game at one.
Not a surprise. With how many people only get stuff online, there’s not much business left.
they doing online gambling.. basically you pay anywhere between 25 dollars to 2,500 dollars to roll for cards. its like 66% you get something same value or less. 33.99% you get sometihng slightly better. and 0.01% you get something worth 2x-3.
the worse thing is they offer a buy back service if you want to sell the item back to them. but they charge like 10% for transaction fee lol. the most hilarious thing is.. this is probably a taxable event, maybe even short terms capital gains tax which is like 17%. so these dumbasses think they will try to hit it big but then end up having to pay 30% in fees and taxes anyways lol.
they doing it for trading cards.
There were malls with 2 gamestop stores. They needed to downsize a bit.