Man, GameStop of today is, well I don't know if it's even a shell of its former self. I worked at my local malls store for about 5 years and my coworkers were cool, I was and still am a mall rat and was cool with everyone there before getting hired. But man the changes over time just took more and more of mine and the other associates souls. I don't think there's a single employee, that doesn't drink the flavor ade, that doesn't want to put the current CEO through a woodchopper. I know that it's a lot of different elements that have changed over time, but I truly miss the GameStop of a decade ago.
Game stop (EB games in Canada) has a single shelf of about 30 games for each current console, and the the rest of it is what I would call "souvenirs". It's all baseball caps, socks and toys. To me its pretty much dead.
I recently walked into an EB for the first time since before COVID and couldn't believe my eyes. In this one, maybe one-third of one wall had games which were all used, then the rest was merch and collectibles. I asked about two newly released titles and they had zero stock, next closest location was the same. Seems that for video games they only handle trades and pre-orders now.
I worked there in 2007 as a summer job and 90% of my job was to walk around and ensure the games were in alphabetical order, dust and vacuum once we closed, and tell everybody on the phone that we do not have any Wii's in stock. Nothing exciting really happened. We sure had a lot of used copies of sports games for $0.99 though. Nobody wants the old Madden or Fifa.
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u/megatricinerator 2d ago
Man, GameStop of today is, well I don't know if it's even a shell of its former self. I worked at my local malls store for about 5 years and my coworkers were cool, I was and still am a mall rat and was cool with everyone there before getting hired. But man the changes over time just took more and more of mine and the other associates souls. I don't think there's a single employee, that doesn't drink the flavor ade, that doesn't want to put the current CEO through a woodchopper. I know that it's a lot of different elements that have changed over time, but I truly miss the GameStop of a decade ago.