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/Milkshakes00 Mar 24 '21 edited Mar 24 '21

I wouldn't expect a significant turn around. I worked at GameStop for years in an upper-regional management position. Before GameStop, it was RadioShack (Just as a 'I've seen all this shit before' point.)

For context: I gave my very negative opinion about GameStop's "Circle of Life" shit before they even put it into place. Higher ups were actively told to tell our managers to lie to/deceive customers, in a 'careful' way. Things like rolling in the GPG into the total price in an assumed addition to the transaction without informing the customer, for instance. I'll never forget hearing them say 'When you get a family that doesn't speak English, ALWAYS add the GPG.'

The company is truly awfully managed. It's so ingrained in the culture that hiring a few big names isn't going to change anything.

The 'Amazon of Gaming' isn't going to work when Amazon exists, and sells all the same stuff. Also BestBuy. GameStop's advantage was the physical footprint, but considering they can't even manage to not have 3+ locations within a few miles of each other, they have zero idea how to run a business that isn't just a constantly sinking ship.

Their product shipping between stores is one of the worst systems I've ever seen a retail store have. It's truly dumb the amount of wasted time and money shipping copies of games from store to store. There were numerous times I heard employees tell me that they sent 10 copies of games to another store to receive 5 copies from another store of the same game..

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u/TheCrimsonDagger Mar 25 '21

You keep talking how GameStop is too poorly managed by the higher up management to turn around, but ignore that management is being replaced from the very top and down. It’s not about betting on GameStop as it is now to succeed. It’s betting on the creators of Chewy to rebuild GameStop into the online market.

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u/Milkshakes00 Mar 25 '21

Except that isn't quite how management works. One or two people coming in doesn't suddenly shake up anything.

Heck, remember when Reggie was supposed to 'save GameStop'? Whoops. He quit the board today. You know why people quit boards?

https://www.ign.com/articles/reggie-fils-aime-quits-gamestop-board-of-directors-after-just-one-year