fa535f No.16884237
When all other stores are shutting down due to coronavirus, they had the balls to defy law enforcement to stay open to serve their few remaining customers. No need to wear a mask because that would scare their consumers of their fine gaming products. They even label themselves as an essential retail store like those you'd find in a pandemic. When I'm shopping for the latest TP and food to get me by for the week, I always go to the local gamestop to buy my mountain dew and Dorito's and the shittiest gaming magazine to whip my ass on. It's good to know that in a crisis or when it's the end of the world, my local Gamestop will be open to serve me in my time of need. The store we need but don't deserve.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200320052929/https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2020/03/19/report-gamestop-tells-store-managers-to-defy-local-authorities-and-remain-open/
I would have put up an archive.is link instead but it's queuing at over 2,500 at this current time.
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4e52f5 No.16884252
>implying they arent "standing strong" because their business is going under
lol. nice try shill
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df2d12 No.16884256
What does Funcostop have to do with videogames?
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7ae74a No.16884262
>>16884237
The company is shitting the bed, they don't have a choice. They need the business.
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385466 No.16884263
Couldn't the managers just leave and legally defend against being fired if gamegoy decides to do so?
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e8ae71 No.16884270
>>16884256
Wasn't there a Gears of War Funko Pop crossover?
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b4557f No.16884279
>>16884263
Yeah, if they were fired for following the law they could probably sue for a lot of cash.
I don't really see the big deal with gamestop staying open though, at least where I live there's always less than half a dozen people in there at any one point. Just limit the amount customers, so no midnight releases, and have the employees actually grab the product for the customer.
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4f38aa No.16884281
>>16884237
>and the shittiest gaming magazine to whip my ass on.
Whatever floats your boat, man.
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5a317e No.16884309
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5a317e No.16884311
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48d892 No.16884353
Gamestop is not breaking the law per se: only gatherings of more than 10 people are banned.
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9a96e0 No.16884553
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082cfb No.16884677
>>16884237
>Gamestop stands strong
In other words Barin doesn't give a shit about his employees' lives.
What else is new?
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309d9e No.16884703
>>16884677
Let me fix you image anon
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0a2504 No.16884874
>>16884703
The nose should be redrawn to match the artstyle of the original image. Like an original Ben Garrison cartoon.
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0a2504 No.16884875
>>16884874
*cartoon compared to the edits posted on Ben's blog.
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7efbc4 No.16884882
I hope the employees have enough self respect to say “fuck it” and quit. When I worked there as a “””key holder””” (ie: somebody with all the responsibilities of an ASM without the pay) I made less that a fast food employee makes and was constantly being abused by the management. It wasn’t worth the pay and it sure as fuck isn’t worth getting a horrible illness over.
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91ed34 No.16884900
>>16884882
Considering that the economy is busily shitting on itself and the jobs outlook is probably going to go south soonish, I'm guessing retail workers are going to be trying to hold on to their jobs.
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627204 No.16884903
do anons even go to goystop?
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5facab No.16884915
This is the death throes of a dying animal.
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9c0143 No.16884919
>>16884903
Very rarely, when nowhere else here has something I've been looking for for a long time, and only when the price is lower than online (counting shipping). I don't buy a lot of current games to begin with though, and being that they only really stock back through seventh gen at their actual brick and mortar stores (in increasingly low quantities and ever worse conditions), that's even less reason for me to waste my time there. And I sure as fuck wouldn't order from their website, after the state of what I've seen anons get sent in the past.
I suppose that, when it comes to occasions I actually feel like spending money on vidya, I'm just lucky there's still other options around here, some of which indeed shit but others that can prove quite good on occasion. Meanwhile someone I know who lives out of state's only options for buying vidya are fucking gamestop and a ridiculously overpriced multimedia shop (with prices roughly double what the same games go for here, regardless of condition or completeness).
Only concern I really have about gamestop possibly going under is that it might impact whether publishers are still apt to bother with physical prints. I know amazon, best buy, and walmart are still things, and gamestop going under could give rise to new businesses that might be more consumer friendly, but publishers love to cut out production costs and keep digital prices high, especially when there's no aftermarket to worry about (and sometimes even when there is).
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50cac8 No.16886224
>>16884553
I miss the days of having options where to get things.
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9c0143 No.16886771
>>16886224
Depends on where you live. Fucking gamestop pretty much choked out everywhere they could in-town that was game-focused competition, and of course they got aided in video places that did vidya on the side, like Hollywood Video, going under too. Other towns around here fared better with gamestop not being every couple miles or so, and are within reasonable driving distance, so there's a smattering of other game stores in them. But while it seems like things have gotten better around here in that some of the gamestops have closed, apparently it's still considered too much of a risk for anyone to open an independent vidya store, or for one of the small chains in other towns to get a closer location.
Tangentially related, but I find it funny how GameCrazy's price stickers tend to come off cases so much easier than gamestop's do, even when they're a good 10+ years old now.
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e96153 No.16886795
>>16884281
damn what an ass
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32394a No.16886798
>>16886771
>game crazy
I still remember an employee just giving me a used 360 controller for free when mine broke. I guess it's because he knew they were gonna get shut down, I don't think I ever visited the store again before it was shitcanned.
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af8313 No.16886810
>>16884237
Offtopic but
>I would have put up an archive.is link instead but it's queuing at over 2,500 at this current time.
Are those guys okay? Seems like they're being flooded or something.
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ffbf7a No.16886813
>>16884903
Yeah I did about 15 years ago.
I don't know why console manufacturers didn't sell everything from their own stores as soon as broadband became available and widespread about 20 years ago. They should all have complete dominance of the game sales market but it took them forever to even start. Microsoft should also own the game sales market on PC but thankfully they failed that too. Apple got it right from the start and look what happened.
I'm not talking about what's right for the consumer, obviously.
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4d03b0 No.16893716
>>16886813
Because RETAILERS. Supermarkets showed that retailers are needed but maybe it's time to go to wholesale & online shopping.
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f4190e No.16893718
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309d9e No.16893795
>GameStop To Close More Than 300 Stores In 2020
Ripin' Piss gaystop
https://archive.vn/eKcIH
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44a0a8 No.16893801
>>16893795
They have something in the upper 5000, so it's not the end, but getting there. It's not like they've opened a bunch of stores in the last few years.
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9c0143 No.16893814
>>16893718
Too cheap for even disposable gloves, I see.
>>16886813
>>16893716
Consider that in Japan you can (could? Not sure if it's still a thing) preorder games at 7-fucking-Eleven of all places.
>>16886798
I miss the local Play'n'trade. They got fucked over bad here.
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