Why GameStop Won't Stop Failing | Corporate Casket

iilluminaughtii

Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Sign up for our Patreon to support what we do! https://www.patreon.com/iilluminaughtii Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die. Gamestop was an icon in the 90s, it was seen as the place to shop for the latest and greatest consoles and games. But what keeps them around today? It certainly doesn’t seem to be good business practices if you look at their history of trade-ins and overpriced bundles. Are they worth keeping alive? Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/5o6ea Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Trauma- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sign up to the economist for in-depth
0:03.0	expert analysis of world events
0:06.0	and topics ranging from business and culture
0:08.0	to science and technology.
0:10.0	You'll get the weekly digital edition, online only articles,
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0:21.0	The Economist is Independent Journalism for Independent Thinking.
0:25.8	Go to Economist.com and get your first month free. I'm going to give one free starting tomorrow at GameStop.
0:38.0	Joy to the player.
0:39.0	Dude, I gotta say, this whole training thing is going.
0:42.0	Ah, GameStop.
0:44.0	Chances are you remember this as an absolute icon if you were at 90s kid.
0:48.0	Maybe it's where you got your first game boy or where you finally found that copy of
0:51.8	Pokemon Red. It's also probably where you finally found that copy of Pokemon Red.
0:53.0	It's also probably where you got ripped off trying to make a few extra dollars selling your old
0:57.6	games to the guy behind the counter who told you they were worth two dollars each
1:01.0	when they represented an entire old chapter of your childhood.
1:04.8	Am I getting too personal?
1:06.1	Well, maybe.
1:07.4	But if you look up Game Stop now, the biggest controversy you'll find them involved in
1:11.6	is that short squeeze from a couple years back.
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