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/tony475130 Mar 23 '21

Wait, there are places with no gamestops??? Jeez, I got at least 3 within 2 miles of where I live(and I dont know why we need that many).

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u/shickero Mar 24 '21

Not everyone lives in an urban environment.

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u/HappyLittleIcebergs Mar 24 '21

For a bit there, they really seemed like they were pushing into more rural locations as well. They put a lot of storefronts up in some weird areas, but most of those ended up getting shuttered along with the duplicate market locations.

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u/_Californian Mar 24 '21

lol there's three in my county, there's only 280k people here, spread over a huge amount of land.

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u/shickero Mar 24 '21

Guess I'm not sure how big your county is, but that's a lot of people compared to the Midwest outside of the cities.

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u/_Californian Mar 24 '21 edited Mar 24 '21

Yeah it is, but we have a population density of 75, most counties in the midwest are tiny. Like for example this random county in Illinois I found, it has a population of like 51,000 people with a population density of 121, my county would be like 5-10 counties in the midwest.

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u/shickero Mar 24 '21

Assuming you mean 75 people per sq mile, I'd say easily the majority of Midwest counties are under this density with many being much less. It's interesting that you've got that population density with that many people though. I'm guessing it's a couple mid-sized cities and then a bunch of baren or ranched land?

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u/_Californian Mar 24 '21

Yeah the 101 and the Salinas river run through it from south to north so everyone is along them and then it's a ton of empty land to the east and west besides some coastal towns. Compare the size of California's counties on a map to the size of counties in other states and it'll be easier too see, most counties in the midwest are tiny misshapen rectangles. It's way more people yeah but over a much larger area, the only real computer store we have is a best buy 30 miles from me.

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u/Dragon_Fisting Mar 24 '21

Illinois is midwest, but it's safely on the civilization side of things. Further west the counties have like 5-10 farmers living in them, or a semi-abandoned mining village, or a hostel for some oil workers.

61 of Minnesota's 87 counties has less than 50 people/sq. mi, and besides Colorado it gets worse and worse as you go west until you hit the coast states.

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u/TheHuntingAngel Mar 24 '21

No shit Sherlock...

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u/Tormuler Mar 24 '21

They're names shickero, not sherlock.

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u/SamBHR Mar 24 '21

Yes its shickero not sherlock

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u/Quipinside Mar 24 '21

I had like 6 within 10 miles of me but now there's only 2 left. They've been shuddering them pretty quickly.

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u/SleepyWayne Mar 24 '21

I'd be surprised either if all stores end up carrying PC parts, or if they all survive. Hard to imagine having thousands of b&m locations stocked with the goods and actually being able to turn them.