seriously? *boggle*

[PepperElf]

Apparently there's a lot of gamers here where I'm living now. There's a Game Stop in just about every mall, and in plazas, and the local military base.

actually i kinda like it cos my bf has a PS2 and i've been buying old games to play, so it's been pretty much cheap entertainment.


but what blew my mind was when we went to one mall, i picked up some games from the GS. Then we went through the rest of the mall and ran into... another gamestop?

I mean I know it's popular but... two in one mall? it's a one-story tiny mall. how do they need two of ANY store here? but yes. we have two gamestops in one mall.

*boggle*

[Geek King]

We've currently got two right accross the street from one another.

[Crossbow]

GameStop: Nail Salon and Check Cashing Store for geeks.

A bit more seriously, I've seen several malls and plazas with more than one GameStop in it. Makes no sense to me either, but it's more common than you think. Still can't figure out how they stay in business.

[Shalom]

Wonder if they're commonly owned, or in competition with each other?

The Duane Reade pharmacy chain was like that in Manhattan. They had something like 215 stores, all of them in New York City and the immediate surroundings, and none anywhere else. Sometimes they're a block apart. One of their execs explained in an article in Drug Store News, one of the trade rags, that many of their stores are very small, being shoe-horned into whatever (very expen$ive) retail space they could find, with no possibility or room for expansion, so they couldn't stock a whole lot in each store; this way if something was missing, there was another DR a block away which probably had it.

(I don't know if he meant that each store had only half a planogram, or if they both had the whole planogram but just with fewer units of each SKU stocked. Do both GSs in your mall carry the same stuff?)

[Stormraven]

We had two in the same mall, but that was due to one having been an EB that was bought by GS - once the EB's lease was up, they closed it.

[telecom_goddess]

Damn it's getting as bad as starbucks, one on every corner

[bacchinalus]

there used to be 3 in the mall near me- a gamestop, EB, and EBx. that lasted for about 5 or so years i think before they renamed the EBs to gamestop. so i win with 3 in a mall

of course they ended up shutting one down because it was just too damn tiny and no one cared about that one anymore, so now there are only 2, but there were 3

[CaroPhoenix]

Where I live, there is 1 inside the mall (Potomac Mills), and then there are 2 outside of the mall in shopping centers that are next to each other. The shopping centers are on the backside of Potomac Mills.

Though to tell you the truth, I prefer the 2 outside of the mall, the employees at the one in the mall are all "Duh! You're a girl!" plus that one's way smaller than the other 2.

[AccountingDrone]

Apparently there's a lot of gamers here where I'm living now. There's a Game Stop in just about every mall, and in plazas, and the local military base.

actually i kinda like it cos my bf has a PS2 and i've been buying old games to play, so it's been pretty much cheap entertainment.


but what blew my mind was when we went to one mall, i picked up some games from the GS. Then we went through the rest of the mall and ran into... another gamestop?

I mean I know it's popular but... two in one mall? it's a one-story tiny mall. how do they need two of ANY store here? but yes. we have two gamestops in one mall.

*boggle*

Crystal Mall, New London? Near Sub Base New London [which is actually across the river in Groton, but we won't go there]

I have found where there is military, there will be gamers. Gaming is one of the main hobbies of military. Young, live in barracks, own gaming systems and computers =)

[Kogarashi]

We had two in the same mall, but that was due to one having been an EB that was bought by GS - once the EB's lease was up, they closed it.

Yeah, near as I can tell that's the case with a lot of the two-in-one-place stores. Gamestop aquired EB Games and eventually changed the names on the stores to Gamestop. The mall in the city we used to live in had one at either end of the building. Here, there's two shopping plazas separated by a four-lane road and a bridge, and there's a Gamestop in each plaza. They're almost within spitting distance of each other, and currently are showing no signs of closing.

[LadyAndreca]

There are two in my mall, due to them buying out an EB. They kept both and made the upstairs one (the original store) the "oooh shiny" store, having a nice layout and catering mostly to new and popular systems and games. The downstairs one is almost entirely used, old, and rare games and isn't nearly as 'shiny', instead cramming as many games into the floor plan as they can fit. It works out quite well for them, because they can split their customers pretty evenly along those lines. My husband prefers the downstairs store, but being a PC gamer I kind of need to go to the upstairs store--GS doesn't carry used PC games.

[Midnight12]

if its not mentioned, maybe the Gamestop was popular enough they had to get another area, and deal/sell the rest of their wares there?

One of the malls back in texas had this, one gamestop dealt more in new games and reservations while the other dealt more with used games. They both did the SAME thing but tried to direct customers to one in particular as needed to avoid confusion.
Or its per franchise?
Our town in LA has three to five just due to how many video game geeks there are, because the stores that do sell video games won't sell past a certain ESRB rating, go to GS.
This is based on observation, otherwise your guess is as good as mine.

[Andara Bledin]

First, there was Babbage's. Babbage's merged with Software Etc back in '96. That same year they filed for bankruptcy and were sold before they had to liquidate their holdings. In '99, the now-named Babbage's Etc launched Gamestop. In 2000, Electronics Boutique became EB Games. Also in 2000, the owners of Babbage's Etc bought Funco, merged Babbage's Etc and Gampestop as a subsidiary, and changed Funco's name to Gamestop. In '05, Gamestop did a takeover merger of EB Games. And they've been phasing out all other names for the last decade.

So, yeah, in some places where they didn't close the stores down, you'll find a lot of Gamestops in the same complexes because they used to be Babbages, Software Etc, and EB Games, in addition to Gamestop.

^-.-^

[PepperElf]

Crystal Mall, New London? Near Sub Base New London [which is actually across the river in Groton, but we won't go there]

I have found where there is military, there will be gamers. Gaming is one of the main hobbies of military. Young, live in barracks, own gaming systems and computers =)

so i'm in the mid south now

[mharbourgirl]

the employees at the one in the mall are all "Duh! You're a girl!"

Lemme at 'em. I really want another chance to explain to a slack-jawed teenager that 'Kid, I've been playing games since before you were born. Now hand me that copy of Half-Life 2 and ring it up. I've got some splattin' to do."

No, I do NOT look my age, and I like it like that.