Report: GameStop closing hundreds of stores in the United States
(www.gamesindustry.biz)
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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.
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...