GameStop is just getting started with its efforts to slim down and reorient the business toward its growth opportunities, though. By all accounts, these consoles are experiencing unprecedented demand, and we continue to work with the suppliers to meet that demand.
It was the chain's best monthly performance in almost two years and likely puts the company on track to post overall sales growth and positive operating margins for its fiscal Q4, which runs from November through January. The retailer is working hard to capitalize on this surge and continue it into However, its wider plans still reflect a business that needs to transform itself in order to compete in an environment where video games are mostly purchased and delivered online.
The good news is that GameStop still has a role to play in connecting video game developers and hardware producers to their customers through software and console sales. Now comes the hard part -- constructing a profitable business around that role. Discounted offers are only available to new members.
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Investing Best Accounts. Stock Market Basics. Stock Market. According to a presentation given to investors today, the company plans to close over 1, by the end of the fiscal year in March of Also in the presentation, GameStop said it has completed the winddown of its Nordic business that it began this time last year, and divested its Simply Mac business.
The company continues to suspend its guidance due to uncertainty around the COVID pandemic, though CEO George Sherman said in a press release that he believes the launch of next-generation consoles will at last bring GameStop back into the realm of year-on-year sales growth. Jenna Owens' responsibilities will be "absorbed by other members of the company's management team". It told employees in a letter viewed by CNN Business that they should direct law enforcement to call a corporate number if they tried to enforce store closures.
Several current employees told CNN Business that only select shops carry the kind of equipment that can help people work from home. GameStop primarily carries higher-end PC gaming accessories, not the more affordable and simpler tools that are most suitable for office work.
They can get that at any of these other stores that also have groceries and are arguably much more essential to being open right now. The Athens store opened on Friday morning, even though the county is under a shelter-in-place order.
Police went to the store Friday afternoon to order that it shut down. They showed GameStop employees an page ordinance that included a list of essential businesses, which CNN Business viewed. GameStop was not listed as one of them. The store closed on Friday at around 4 pm ET and it is unclear if it will reopen Saturday.
Athens' police department did not return a request for comment. They're not essential items. Police visit a GameStop in Athens, Georgia to order the store to shut down and comply with shelter-in-place rules.
As states and districts adopt new rules to counter COVID, GameStop said it would shift its approach: "We are complying with all state, county, city and local ordinances and we will continue to adjust to any future developments.
GameStop is struggling financially, going through considerable layoffs and closing stores. The pandemic could hurt the company because the bulk of its profit comes selling physical copies of the games.
I'm trying not to cry in front of my staff," said a longtime current GameStop store leader in New Jersey, who didn't want to be identified for fear of being fired. It doesn't matter what the staff on the ground does.
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