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GameStop to employees: wrap your hands in plastic bags and go back to work
- Thread starter Richiek
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People give their cards to their waiter/waitress to pay for their meals all the time. Give the card over and hope for the best lol
As much as I hate the company, the virus outbreak has contributed to a 20-30% increase in kids playing videogames based on research in Canada and right now Walmart is open and selling games too, and right now unfortunately is the only time people are literally desperate to go into Gamestop and buy games for there kids. Decisions, Decisions. Worst case get all GS employees Hazmat suits and maybe they can keep the stores open.
THat explains why my local gamestop called saying that i could come up to the store and pay off my preorder for One Piece, after telling me Sunday that was impossible, so instead i opted to get the game digital and pre-purchased on my Switch, i will just use my money from that preorder for Xenoblade i suppose
Worked there for almost eight years. During a torrential downpour from a hurricane, where a store was literally flooding, he brought buckets to help "scoop out the water". Corporate would always bend over backward for the sale.
Yeah, this company will probably not last through the end of the year.
Yeah, this company will probably not last through the end of the year.
It would take an enormous effort to instantly put in place (I'm just spitballing, don't take this seriously), but I have to imagine the only way to keep Gamestop employees safe and to also remain in business would be installing a safety deposit box slot into the wall. Customer enters their information on a chip pad attached to the building. Employee on the other side with a monitor can verify the purchase. Drop the console / game / whatever into the box in a way where the employee doesn't have to touch the container itself, slide it to the outside, and be done. Of course, that's absurd. But I'm just trying to paint a mental image for myself of how it *could* work.
We should help bury them by not going into that store while all this shit is going on
you shouldn't be leaving your house anyway just go digital
From the article
No wonder they're so keen to stay open, jeez. That's wild that so many people have been going to gamestop of all places. Buy digitally people c'mon!
No wonder they're so keen to stay open, jeez. That's wild that so many people have been going to gamestop of all places. Buy digitally people c'mon!
Walmart and Target still have their electronic sections open; you can grab a game and groceries all in one go.
The difference being they just also sell video games in the same location as essential items, as opposed to Gamestop, which exclusively sells video games (and toys and whatnot, but you get what I mean). They should be closed as a whole. Video games are not essential to anyone, and digital purchasing exists.
I hope EBgames in my country would never follow this same route, cuz it's the last thing I've preordered Persona 5R from that place. (If they intend to do it illegally)
On the one hand, experts say viruses survive quite easily on plastic bags and containers, and this thread should remind everyone to exercise the same ridiculous caution with plastic bags as you would with social distancing and hand-washing.
On the other, I've seen Seattle businesses do stuff similar to this with bag handling (I continue to walk to stores in my neighborhood that are open for food/coffee while maintaining strict rules about distance and hygiene). All the ones I've seen are mom-and-pop shops desperate to keep customers coming in. Not to say Gamestop is doing the right thing with this mandate handed down from corporate, but it's not coming ENTIRELY out of nowhere.
On the other, I've seen Seattle businesses do stuff similar to this with bag handling (I continue to walk to stores in my neighborhood that are open for food/coffee while maintaining strict rules about distance and hygiene). All the ones I've seen are mom-and-pop shops desperate to keep customers coming in. Not to say Gamestop is doing the right thing with this mandate handed down from corporate, but it's not coming ENTIRELY out of nowhere.
All this stuff sucks tremendously but next gen is ten minutes from now and they have like 4500+ stores worth of assets they can still get rid of. They're not going to be gone nearly that soon.
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I was arguing against the notion that people aren't wanting to buy video games; they do, and they have the convenience of doing it while they grab their necessities.
Yeah, Gamestop should've been closed from the jump, but that's not the part I was tackling.
Desperation. Hey, maybe I'll buy TLOU2 used, the day after release, for $30 if they are so desperate for my cash. All jokes aside this is shameful.
