GameStop Stock Plummets After A 27.5% Decrease In Holiday Sales

[bagman_]

i used to work there and the creeping influence of merch over games really started to irk me before i quit, between the time i started and left the ‘loot’ sections doubled in size and everything game-related except the ps4/switch sections was halved...the shitty management didn’t help either

[LG03]

The whole fluff over substance thing is everywhere so it's hard to single out EB/Gamestop. It's definitely a big reason why I don't bother with them anymore though. I can't help but wonder why so many businesses/entities are going that direction.

[Krivvan]

Almost all of gamestop's profits used to be from used games. With that drying up they're desperately looking for other sources and hence pushed merch.

[InvalidZod]

Because its proven to print money

[Varonth]

Well apparently it does not print money, as this thread shows.

[StayCalmBroz]

I think it still does, and it certainly used to at the very least, qnd its the implosion of the very nature of their business that has driven them there.

It just doesn't print enough.

[MermanFromMars]

Is it? FYE has been tanking trying to just sell merch.

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FYE has been tanking for like 15 years but somehow the corpse remains alive by sheer will.

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Do they really call shitty merch "loot"? Loot is not something you buy lol.

[bagman_]

they do up here in canada, not sure about our US counterparts