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Finally a Holiday Off

I’m not really sure how to respond to this article about GameStop employees having Thanksgiving off. GameStop is just follow the lead of retailers like Target and Wal-Mart but they are in a very different position than those other retailers. I think it is a smart thing to do but it’s a complicated decision for all involved.

Come back tomorrow

GameStop has been at the precipice of bankruptcy for a few years now. It seems like a month doesn’t go by without some news snippet about them shutting down stores or laying off workers. For GameStop, the business, it is not good news that they will have to delay their door-buster sales for a day.

Talk about super spreaders

When I think about the workers, it’s a different story. With the threat of Covid 19, many workers are worried about their safety and the safety of their family members. So, taking one of the busiest days of the year off is a responsible thing to do for the health of employees and customers alike.

I’m sure there are a lot of GameStop employees who love the idea of spending time with their family on Thanksgiving or even just having a day off to play games. But, unlike salaried employees, GameStop employees at stores don’t get paid holidays. For these people, who are living paycheck to paycheck, they are losing a day of work. Worse yet they are losing a day where they would have been paid time-and-a-half. That is a significant loss to their paychecks.

It is a complicated issue and there are a lot of reason why closing the stores outweigh the reasons for keeping them open. At least we know there will be more people online to play games with on Thanksgiving, unless some asshats plan a DDoS attack on that day.

GameStop Announces Americans are Fucking Stupid or They Might Just be Superheroes

gamestop trade in — What do they buy the games with? Bubble gum?

Imagine walking into a store and being blind. Now image that you are not blind, but oblivious. Yesterday’s VentureBeat interview with Tony Bartel might have revealed that our modern society is becoming oblivious to everything that is happening around ourselves. You may say that this is a problem. But, I believe it is just a step in our evolution to super-humanity.

trade in website gamestop — Who will I trade them with? That rabbit? Rabbits don’t have money!

Yesterday, GameStop’s president Bartel, said this to VentureBeat. “Believe it or not, only 40 percent of the people who walk into a GameStop store today know that we accept trades of games,” he said.

Now, anybody who has ever been to a GameStop and looked around the store would know that this is impossible. How can only 40% of their customers are able to see the advertising on every window and every shelf in the store? How can 60% of their customers be deaf to their plea for trade-in games at the register? We know that every cashier asks us before the transaction starts if we have any trade-in games. Therefore, this can not be the fault of GameStop, as a company, because advertising and register-monkey spiel are bleeding from every nook and cranny of that store – it must be that we have evolved our comprehension of advertising.

I suppose we can trace the origins of this phenomenon to the turn of the century, when our magazines were being weighed down by metric tons of America Online floppy disks, when our parents turned homicidal because of dinner-time telemarketing, or when webpages turned into minefields of porn advertising.

One can only assume, that either most GameStop customers have no idea what the words “trade, used, or sell” mean, they are oblivious to everything that is going on around them, or they have evolved to such a point that advertising of any kind will not go through their blinders.

There are three ways to look at this situation:

1. We, as a society, might have a problem with processing everyday information.

2. We evolved in response to our overly advertised environment.

3. We have an ever increasing number of morons in our society.

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