Last year, GameStop closed 320 stores across the United States as part of a "reduction (their) effort store ”. This year, the company will shut down at least that many, and likely more.
As Gamasutra report, the closure was announced during a phone call he received last week, when deputy president and chief financial officer Jim Bell said "(We) expect the closure of the store to be equivalent to more than three hundred or more of the closures we have seen in fiscal 2019 worldwide. Importantly, we want to emphasize that store closures are part and parcel of our real estate plan and are not related to recent business practices. ”
This company a strong desire to continue trading right now would suggest the opposite, as it is likely GameStop will make less money than usual for the next few months (at least) while everyone is stuck at home.
Of course, there are currently 5500 GameStop stores in the United States, right down to over 5800 before closing last year.