Weird way to say people buy their games online now and you became an irrelevant tchotchke shop. - ThreadSky

davidmoscrop.com • 4 days ago

Weird way to say people buy their games online now and you became an irrelevant tchotchke shop.

#NEW: GameStop says it intends to sell its Canadian and French operations, the latest planned cuts after years of declining revenues.

CEO cites ‘Wokeness and DEI’ in a statement.

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trudl.bsky.social•4 days ago

So that's how you spell ‘tchotchke’!! 🤷‍♀️
Thanks David:)

sadworld.bsky.social•3 days ago

No one needs game stop. You can buy and upload video games to your device. Or pay for a game pass. Bye

simongood.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s almost like…playing violent video games all day have made them disconnected and incapable of being part of a healthy society.

coledarc.bsky.social•4 days ago

wow, i never knew the CEO was such a dick

craigmar.bsky.social•4 days ago

I went to a GameStop a couple months ago to buy an Xbox controller. The guy there called me "buddy" and said they didn't have any. I walked fifty feet to a Best Buy Express and they had like 20 to choose from.

davidmoscrop.com•4 days ago

lol stupid company

solidshatner.bsky.social•3 days ago

If you’d like to interview a former manager, let me know. I have many insights/stories I could share.

solidshatner.bsky.social•3 days ago

IMO EB Games went REALLY south when acquired by GameStop. Much of upper management came from the failed RadioShack team.

solidshatner.bsky.social•3 days ago

I have GameStop PTSD. I still shudder in even how I was forced to answer the damn phone.

“Thank you for calling GameStop where you can trade & save and get an extra 10% credit towards a pre-order of GTA if you’re an Edge Card member (panting out of breath). My name is ____, how can I help you?

solidshatner.bsky.social•3 days ago

“Gutting” CDs and placing them in cheap sandwich bags and then turning around and charging customers full price for opened product with the seals broken. Giving $5 credit on a new release trade only to resell for $50. Lol Yeah it was “woke” culture.

Scumbags.

sirdorius.bsky.social•4 days ago

GS bought Impulse, the second largest online store after Steam, and mismanaged it into irrelevance. It would be dead, with hedge fund vultures picking at its corpse right now if it didn't become a Reddit meme when people were bored at home.

muggin.bsky.social•4 days ago

Blockbuster retroactively blames "DEI and wokeness" for failure of business model during changing times.

smilodonichthys.bsky.social•4 days ago

I think they're just signaling to the weird Reddit cult that still buys all their stock tbh

camusorbust.bsky.social•4 days ago

Indeed.

bbennettesq.bsky.social•4 days ago

Went in to buy a new release on Friday. They don't even carry new releases for TWO weeks unless you preordered. Company policy.

My money went elsewhere.

fram1963.bsky.social•4 days ago

K. Bye!

colin99.bsky.social•4 days ago

I haven't bought a physical copy of a game since the late 90s. I don't even know they still existed

mikbrobe.bsky.social•4 days ago

Maybe he’s mad that inclusion doesn’t seem to be including them anymore when it comes to retail purchasing 😛

fkenny.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes, but it did give them the opportunity to be really offensive about Canada as well. No slug unturned.

ljegan.bsky.social•4 days ago

Clearly the intelligence deficit of the CEO had nothing to do with it.

lizzie8023.bsky.social•4 days ago

Bye bye

magnificentjosh.bsky.social•4 days ago

The CEO is a WallSteetBets guy, and got to where he is off the backs of people that believe they're working for a part financial, part spiritual force that will bring about the collapse of centrally managed economics. There's some really genuinely worrying people in this whole thing.

primad.bsky.social•4 days ago

That and I'll never forget how that asshole ruined ThinkGeek too. He did that all on his own.

(I still have my "Obey Gravity. It's The Law." Tshirt from back in the before times.)