Any user who got a business degree would like to tell me what they could’ve done to help the ever reducing physical...

Any user who got a business degree would like to tell me what they could’ve done to help the ever reducing physical media industry?

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no on-disk drm

Probably could've gone into sellibg online store keys like what Fanatical/2game do. A focus on the in-store experience (turning it into more of a boutique, probably through more demo kiosks, events etc) is another idea, given this has worked in other industries. Some of the extentions to their product range that could've worked (retro, especially "geek" merch) but were either poorly implemented or pushed to the point of turning off old customers. A slight sell-off of some locations earlier would've been for the better (especially if they did the boutique idea, since you don't need multiple stores in proximity) and the funds from that could've been put into investing in the ideas I mentioned or more (wages, other assets).

Give out free USB disk drives for PCs. I haven't owned a computer with a built in disk drive for like ten years.

Bro, Gamestop acquired ThinkGeek. All they would have to do is transition into selling merchandise based on video games and they would have done well.

They had plenty of time to adapt to the changing market, and failed.

>BUT THE SHORT SQUEEZE!!! MOASS!!!!!
GME really destroyed people's brains. How many of you are still holding your bag? I got out at when it was 300 a share.

I worked with GameStop for various promotions and heard things through the grapevine. What they needed to nail was experiential marketing.

GameStop had some sort of premium store they were testing in select locations. It was black, sleek, open, and had massive floor demos for things like VR. This was the way to go, at least in industries vying for the increasingly difficult physical sales. They planned to take this concept and use what worked across all their stores to make wanting to go to GameStop about more than just buying games, since they couldn't compete on that alone. But they never ended up doing this.

In fact is wrong because what they ended up doing was diving hard into merchandise but they did it in such a shitty way that you'd be hard pressed to say they did it properly/at all.

Not a bad idea maybe put special spy ware on USB for cia or some marketing comps that is completly hidden get extra funding

I just dont see why Gamestop went the route of "sell 1000000000 things per store thats all literal garbage like funko pops and "gamer" backpacks" and whatever other shit. Why not just downsize a bit and just sell games? Sell some PCs or gaming laptops. Consoles, games, game service cards (psn, etc) and thats about it. Is that so hard? Why did they blow billions of dollars and all that other bullshit instead of just being a game store?

Wait, someone actually goes into a store and buys physical games in 2022?

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They have a gamestop like store in the uk. It was so bad everytime you walk in they would push you into getting a loyalty card and you had to pay to get it and the rewards were shit fuck that.

Because the margins for selling physical vidya and vidya accessories are tighter a virgin's pussy.

i used to do that until last year but a lo of them closed. they had some real sweet deals.

the squeeze was happening. Its just that the people who make the rules changed the rules and successfully prevented it.

Because of digital sales disks are slowly being reduced to effectively "merch" nowadays and there is no stopping that. If you want them to sell more you have to pack in more stuff alongside the disk.

faggot

You talking about Game? I had a card with them and I didn't have to pay for it.

Kek, get wrecked you journalist faggots

Not being absolute dogshit?
Literally every time I've tried buying a "new" game from gamestop they give me a goddamn used open copy that's been taped closed
FUCK gamestop, they are still massive fucking cancer and their death cannot come soon enough

When they only allowed selling and stopped buying they prevented it.

Actually if you bought at 10 bucks after the dump when the jews jewed in that january and held it until march the stock price went back up to about 250 and held there for a couple months. You couldve made bank even then but you missed it.