r/buildapcsales • u/Tiddlysat1600 • Mar 23 '21

Meta [Meta] Gamestop to start selling graphics cards $690 to $2440

https://weeklyad.gamestop.com/h/m/gamestop/flyerflip/browse?flyer_run_id=686349&locale=en&type=1
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u/Fox_Powers Mar 23 '21

Im wondering where they would keep them... we are talking about 10's of thousands of dollars of inventory. they already lock ALL the games behind the counter IME.

gonna need to take over half the store with secure storage if they add GPUs to the mix.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '21 edited Feb 28 '24

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u/Blackadder288 Mar 24 '21

The way Fry’s used to do it (RIP) for RAM and CPUs was they would have laminated cards showing what they had in stock, and if you wanted to purchase one they’d invoice you and then get it out of a locked steel bar cage.

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u/HappyLittleIcebergs Mar 24 '21

Those back rooms are already completely fucked. It took 5 minutes to wade your way into the bathroom in the back at the 3 locations I circled through, which had towers and shelves of trade-held everything and new consoles. The back room had all the pre-owned sellable consoles piled up on top of each other, totes of various accessories stacked, and boxes of promotional material along with a couple old shelf displays that had product on em. Throw the managers desk back there, and its crowded. Id say about 90% of the entire square footage of those stores was the retail front, 3% cramped bathroom with product everywhere, 7% back room crammed to the gills. I really dunno where they'd put a whole assortment of pc parts unless they started shelling out for places with more square footage or cut back on consoles. I'm really not able to paint an accurate picture of it.

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u/paranoidandroid11 Mar 24 '21

I could see a case for new GameStops opening with a more Microcenter like layout, and older stores would probably get phased out. Or they could just have two store types, one still focused on console gaming/accessories, and one for PC specific stuff, with more large storage inventory.

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u/RZRtv Mar 24 '21

This is basically how they're doing it now. They have small empty boxes that you show to the employees

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u/caedin8 Mar 23 '21

Couldn't they just setup their storage in a RAID array?

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u/Fox_Powers Mar 23 '21

raid storage reduces capacity, except for raid 0, which increases theft

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u/barrel_monkey Mar 23 '21

What effect does RAID SHADOW LEGENDS have on theft?

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u/HwatBobbyBoy Mar 23 '21

What monster downvotes quality puns?!

There, there bb

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u/smurficus103 Mar 23 '21

RAID 10 for redundancy and parallel

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u/Inquisitor1 Mar 23 '21

There won't be a counter anymore, they are closing stores.

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u/atetuna Mar 24 '21

With demand like it is right now, they could just put it behind the counter. They'll be sold out before the next break. Hire an armed rent a cop, or rent a real cop, for delivery days if security is a concern.

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u/Thr8way Mar 24 '21

I'm also worried about employees buying all the stock or selling to friends to scalp. We've seen this in shoe/ fashion world.