GameStop beginnt das Jahr 2026 mit der Schließung von Hunderten von Geschäften, da der CEO auf einen Zahltag von 35 Milliarden US-Dollar setzt; Da CEO Ryan Cohen Milliarden versprochen werden, behaupten GameStop-Mitarbeiter, sie seien kaum über Schließungen informiert worden
https://www.polygon.com/gamestop-closing-stores-as-ceo-payday/
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Us mere mortals could never understand the importance, power and beauty of such an amazing man as the CEO of GameStop
I think we should literally give him $50 billion
Edit: and all the sheep are lining up to be sheered
GameStop isn’t a gaming company anymore. It’s a hedge fund that happens to own some stores that sell videogame accessories.
95% of their profits come from collecting interest on their assets.
Terrible headline. CEO “promised billions” is very misleading considering it’s split into 9 vesting tiers where he would need to purchase shares (not direct compensation) AND raise market cap by 10x to be fully compensated
The one in my town is closing next week =[
at one time from like 2008-2018 we had two!
sad. Fuck CEOs
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Makes you wonder how twat waffles like Cohen feels good about themselves
The comments on this thread are so very very misinformed and I completely understand based on the intentionally poor verbiage in this headline and its clear intent to mislead.
CEOs are the new evil. I mean, They have always been evil, but in these corrupt times, the evil greed rises to the top.
Lol. This guy is gonna drive GameStop out of business entirely, but its stock will keep trading at infinite multiples of its earnings ($0).
Everything about America is so fundamentally broken right now.
Anyone working at gamestop wanna give me a PS5 for free? You know, to revolt?
why do these same posts keep on showing up?
closing stores is a winning strategy. That will generate trillions of dollars of value.
Will the stores be replaced with AI, crypto, NFT’s?
(s)hit piece
All those stupid diamond hands gme noobs brought this shitty company back only for it to fk its employees so the CEO could steal a pay day.
Losta sloppy CEO glazing here. Guessing some of you never worked the private sector or in the for-profit healthcare service industry.
Truly astonishing.
You’ll never be millionaires, btw. Keep roleplaying on Reddit, though!!
Can’t they even pay this? They’re market cap is barely 6bil
It honestly shocks me that GameStop Didn’t try to go the GamePass route before GamePass.
dude’s a maga. This shouldn’t surprise anybody
I’m not remotely surprised at more closings… for the brick-and-mortar end of the business, there hasn’t been in viable strategy in ages. The margins are too low for most stuff to satisfy Wall Street and the used resale game is just a form of arbitrage that frankly GameStop were never all that good at. All the subsequent attempts to pivot (ThinkGeek, Funco, etc.) were never going to be long-term answers. Stuff like PowerPacks seems like it might work for a while– there are no shortage of people who are down to gamble recklessly– but even that seems to have a determinate shelf life. Not sure how GameStop’s gonna manage this transition, but as more stores the back-end infrastructure to support the remaining ones is going to make less and less sense. I’d guess in three years, maybe four, GameStop doesn’t have any physical locations left. Cohen’s deal is almost entirely incentive-based, so I don’t have much issue with that. If he’s actually able to drive the results needed (he almost certainly won’t), he’ll have earned that money.
We had our store close just the other day. Some people got emails about it and others didn’t. I did not and went to go check it out one last time and it had already been taken down.
The email I saw on the local Facebook community said 1/15/2026. That email was printed out on the front door of the store with a 7 written on the 15th. I was there on the 6th and it was torn apart and closed.
That store had been there since 2004 and was my childhood store. I had a lot of memories in there. I don’t buy anything from them today but I wanted to check it out one last time and see the manager there who had been there near my entire childhood.
It’s sad but not unexpected.
Private equity at work. The future for a lot more businesses. The consolidation of power and wealth is real. Hope y’all secure your dwelling, vegetable garden, transportation, and water well, also guns and ammo.
To the moon?
A few years ago they closed my local store. I had to drive 30 minutes to the one they moved everything to.
I got the email last week or whatever they are closing that store now. I have to drive over 60 minutes now to get to a GameStop store.
I’m just not going to do that. If I’m driving 60 minutes, I’m hitting up the better used stores at that point.
lol the panic posts are out. They are scared. GameStop will drain them for everything they’ve robbed from the little guy. Love to see it:)
I remeber when everyone was praising Gamestop. I knew it was too good to be true,
Honestly I’m not surprised.. looks like two GameStops are closing near me in Grand Rapids and that means there’s only one left in GR which is on Alpine. The one in the mall is closing which was always a weird one but it was the cleanest. I don’t know how the one on Alpine is still open as it’s dirty and there isn’t much selection.
I had five within a half hour of me. All but 1 of them shuttered this week, which I would say is the OG location as it was a FuncoLand previously. What really surprised me was the location inside the mall being shuttered. That used to be an Electronics Boutique and had been there forever.
Plus side is the two closest mom and pop stores are booming with business right now.