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