GameStop Closing Hundreds Of Locations, Again

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GameStop Closing Hundreds Of Locations, Again

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GameStop’s aisles are going quiet—again.

Remember when you’d stroll into GameStop on a Friday night, smell the old cartridges, and haggle over a used copy of Skyrim? Yeah. That’s becoming a nostalgic footnote. In 2025, GameStop axed nearly 600 U.S. stores. This January? Another 300–400 are vanishing, with employees getting little warning and shelves emptied into warehouses.

The official line? “Store portfolio optimization.” The real story? CEO Ryan Cohen’s $35 billion stock option dream hinges on slashing costs—and physical locations are low-hanging fruit. Even if it means turning GameStop from a community hangout into a corporate spreadsheet.

For most of us, this isn’t life-changing. We’ve been buying games digitally or on Amazon for years. But in small towns and suburbs? The local GameStop was often the only place to browse physical games, trade in your old console, or find that obscure PS2 gem. Now? If you want a used copy of Metroid Prime, you’re probably driving an hour—or scrolling through eBay.

The end of an era isn’t loud. It’s just… closed.

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