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GameStop makes $55.5bn takeover offer for eBay (www.bbc.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/world@quokk.au
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[–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

"The proposal does not sound like a "terribly good offer" as it would saddle eBay with GameStop's debt, said Sucharita Kodali, a retail analyst at research firm Forrester."

Ah, there it is. Any time I've poked my head through the door of a Gamestop in the past 5 years it has been an empty ghost town mostly stocked with crappy funco pops.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Like Free-to-Play games and Casinos, they "make their real money" on whales. Go step foot in a Best-Buy; 95% of the time, the employee-to-customer-ratio is about 5-to-1, or worse.

    To be clear, I think basing one's business on that concept is delusional at-best, but its what a "profitable" retail chain has looked-like to share-holders for at least the last 30 years.

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