GameStop Corp. Emerges

Vampyr · 04-19-2005, 05:25 PM

Monopoly! Uh oh!

Really...the places where I shop have an EB on one side of the street, and a GameStop on the other. I hope this doesn't cause me to pay more for my games. >_<

DeathsHand · 04-19-2005, 11:59 PM

that's odd, I was under the impression that EBgames was doing better than gamestop...

a software etc in the mall nearest to me fairly recently closed down and became an EBgames... and a babbages in another mall recently closed down (there was already an EBgames in that mall)... nod...

Oh well...

Dark Samurai · 04-20-2005, 10:57 AM

GameStop pulled an EA

GameMaster · 04-20-2005, 12:36 PM

Does this merger mean they'll actually accept checks now? If they did, maybe their sales would occupy a little more than 1% of the gaming consumer community. Until they actually decide to broaden their horizons of acceptable payment methods, I'll continue shopping from Target.

At Target, I'm not treated like a suspected criminal for wanting to pay with a check. Cheap, worthless, specialty stores

Long live giant corporations!

MuGen · 04-20-2005, 02:04 PM

Checks..? Come on GM... get a check card and be on w/ your life.....lol

altho +rep for being old fashioned... I suppose.

thatmariolover · 04-26-2005, 03:04 PM

Well, the merger won't be complete for another four months, or so says our District Manager over at work. I personally think this is a terrible proposition, and I work for Gamestop.

GameStop among a bunch of other retailers (Babbages, Planet X, Software Etc., and more I think) were bought out by Barnes & Noble a year or so ago. They were all merged into one super company that kept the name GameStop. So yeah, EB was doing better than us, but after that GameStop's slowly been strangling EB Games.

GameStop is already one of the worst empoyers around. Offering minimal benefits and average hiring wages at $5.45/h. A lot of people think that you get to play games all day when you work in there, but it's the last thing I get to do. Once, maybe twice a month I'll get to take an hour break and pull out a used game to put in the kiosk. So no, that's not the reason for the lousy pay. I personally fear for all EB employee's and their wages. Gamestop has monopolized the market and the retail employees and customers are the people who will suffer because of it.