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Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs (www.404media.co)

submitted 3 months ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 60 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Jesus Christ, content warning for that body count you crossed off at the end there.

Fuck. I miss all those shops. Can I get a R.I.P. for Babbages, Game Crazy (pre-hollywood buyout) and Software Etc... while we're at it?

No sense in not going totally dark here. Haha

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Babbages, Software Etc., EB Games, and Funcoland all got absorbed into what is now Gamestop, but who knows how long they'll hold on.

Game releases this year have been super light, unless there are some major announcements coming up, it's not looking great for them. :(

[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah man, GameStop was at the forefront of what the industry as a whole is doing now. Acquiring, consuming, shitting out a husk.

I'm of 2 minds with GameStop nowadays. On one hand, it's somewhat nice to still have a physical game store. On the other, it's fucking GameStop and all the baggage that comes with that.

I don't see much of a future for physical shops at this point. Especially with Best Buy, Walmart and Kroger phasing out retail space.

Soon we'll have nothing but digital and subscription and I guess we'll like it? I'll hold on to my dragons hoard of physical games as long as I can (thanks Game Crazy for employing new throughout high school) but it'll be painful the day I realize I'm no longer adding new stuff to it.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't know that I can forgive them for killing Think Geek. :(

[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As an avid Bawls drinker, I 100% agree with this sentiment.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can still get Bawls if you travel to the US! In certain states. If the state has a Microcenter.

[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Aww man, good to know! I wish we had a microcenter nearby. Closest one is at least a state away.

Maybe they'll ship it. Haha

[–] Fal@yiffit.net 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I remember software etc. They had a big event for the dreamcast being released. 9/9/99. I wore that free shirt with the date that I got there from playing sonic adventure for like 15 years

[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

We had a pretty big event at Game Crazy. I think those shirts finally got retired after my kid grew out of them quite a few years ago.

I unfortunately... put them in the dryer to much throughout the years and they seem to have shrank. Yeah, that's what happened.