As my box Last week, retail giant GameStop reported increasingly to fill its retail stores with weird, random junk instead of, well, video games. Dissatisfied GameStop employees are grumbling online about the massive quantities of toys the warehouses are shipping. And as it turns out, customers aren’t even buying them.
Corresponding an r/GameStop thread discussing the phenomenon
However, it wasn’t just GameStop’s odd obsession with squishmallows that was causing staff headaches. If even one customer bought a toy item, the warehouse would send more to that store.
“Some random kid bought a backpack clip from this Jurassic world and now [the] The warehouse thinks I’m the primary residence to receive everything Jurassic world related,” complained one employee. “It’s not selling at all and we’re still getting distributions for it.” Another frustrated employee received 66 backpack clips from Sonic the Hedgehog because a man bought five last week.
“We get so-called blind bags in almost every shipment,” says an employee my box. “Eventually we dedicated four different spaces in the store to them. And our back room was full of it. Aside from video games, they’re probably the most common items in the store.”
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This particular store has managed to sell these true GameStop stash crates by putting them on clearance, but the stores still get too many blind bags in relation to the space they have to actually display merchandise. According to another employee who spoke to my box, the overstock is the main reason why their store was constantly selling out. They couldn’t get rid of the Power Rangers toys, Marvel Legends and DC action figures, and plushies.
Sometimes GameStop even gets unwanted video games. That funniest reported in the original Reddit thread
a customer chimed in on Reddit to express confusion as to why GameStop’s retail stores were filled with unsellable toys. Apparently, came the reply, they’re helping retail stores stay afloat. “Because games have a niche market. They’re bad gifts, a lot of people prefer digital, and GameStop doesn’t do retro, so it’s a small market for games,” responded a current employee. “T-shirts, collectibles, etc. all make a lot of money, they’re simple gifts and can be compared to the candy next to the register, an impulse buy.”
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