GAME up for sale

[Rep]

Seems Warrington has spared either Game or Gamestation as only one store appears for the town.

Edit: Would also quite like to know why the GAME in Leigh has been spared. I cannot imagine it did too much business, being based in Lancashire's answer to Mos Eisley afterall!

The Leigh GAME was a Gamestation up until 6 months ago, it still has 2 more years on its lease and is literately the only games retailer in town, besides an Argos. I have a few friends who work there and have done since day 1.

[Soundwave]

Just looked at the list.

Basildon Gamestation has gone

We do still have a Game in the Eastgate shopping centre but still that's a lot of Chavs going to have to find somewhere else to buy their games

Neil

[crocky-chocky]

The 2 Game's in Meadowhall have gone. Very Sad...Weirdly fond memories of being gobsmacked at a Sega Saturn playing on a massive projector there. Gamestation and my gf's job is safe...ish. She's volunteered to help transfer the stock from the other 2 Game's and feels guilty/upset for those that have lost their jobs, probably just because of store location/rent costs too.

[koopatroopa90]

Wait a darn tooting minute. I've just googled the address of the Brighton store thats closing. There are 2 GAMEs and 1 Gamestation there, with the Gamestation having decent staff and being on the same road as one of the GAMEs (Western Road) - it's one on this road that has gone. I'd assumed it was the GAME, as that makes bloody sense but no, its the Gamestation

The nearest Gamestation to me in Woking has closed too, although the GAME here and there survive for now. TBH I'm not surprised with the Guildford store as it always seems packed with middle class mothers and their children on the weekends, and HMV (and I guess Argos) aside it is the only game retailer.

Both GAME and GS have survived in Worthing too which is odd as that town has just had a CEX set up and has loads of second hand game retailers....

[Daragon]

The Leigh GAME was a Gamestation up until 6 months ago, it still has 2 more years on its lease and is literately the only games retailer in town, besides an Argos. I have a few friends who work there and have done since day 1.

You're probably more likely to get kids nicking games in Leigh than actually buying them, and that's not an unfair stereotype either. It's probably more suitable a location for a Grainger games than something like Game or Gamestation.

[BaronSqwelch]

Am surprised the huge GS in Brum is gone as it always had a long line at the till and was always rammed. Tho I stopped going due to one annoying member of staff (Had to almost bargain with him to get me a new copy of Portal 2 and when buying Mario Kart 3D, after a puppet show trying to get me to buy a pair of Star Wars toys he actually scanned through the guide book I told him I didnt want because it was too great to allow me to pass up....I just walked out) But my local lives on happily. Just need some stock now.

[Skull Commander]

What on earth is the point of the Irish store employees that are refusing to leave? It isn't although Game is going to magic up a redundancy payment just for them. Seems a bit daft and a waste of time. They would be better using the time to try and get another job.

[sj33]

I'm struggling to understand the closure list myself. I assumed they'd be closing stores in towns where they have multiple presences (Game and Gamestation stores overlapping, or multiple Game stores), but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I know for a fact that there is only one Game store in Dewsbury (the only other non-indie dedicated retailer there is Granger Games). The nearest store to Dewsbury now is presumably in Leeds, where 5 stores have also been closed. Also, with both the Game and Gamestation closed in Sheffield, there is now zero presence for the company in Sheffield city centre.

What on earth is the point of the Irish store employees that are refusing to leave? It isn't although Game is going to magic up a redundancy payment just for them. Seems a bit daft and a waste of time. They would be better using the time to try and get another job.

I agree that it is probably futile, but people need to stand their ground and try and get the redundancy pay that they're entitled to. We're talking a months wage. Now that Game are in administration, the employees go to the back of the queue in terms of payment, the banks go to the front. That is hardly fair.

[Skull Commander]

My understanding is that all Game staff were told they would get what they were earned. Anything above that, they can see the government about. Seems fair enough to me, given the circumstances.

[sj33]

They've been told to see the government about redundancy pay, but they would receive significantly less than what they are entitled to. I don't really blame them for not taking that lightly.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Was in my local & staff said there was a whisper that they would close all but the 150 most profitable stores, of which my local is

[ETC]

PwC needs "a bit more time"

That, to me, reads more than a bit "ooh err, we might not be able to get a deal done before the **** really hits the fan". Or am I just being a little alarmist.

Reads more to me that Head Office have made a complete cluster **** of the finance and details needed so they probably ain't got a clue what's going on


The closure list is weird where I live they have closed the 2 stores near me so there is about a 30 mile vortex around where I live if I want to go to a Game or Gamestation. The nearest is either 18 miles up the road to MetroCentre or 18 miles south to Darlington (and god knows how that dump of a store was favoured its bloody terrible and and it's not competition as there is a hmv and a Cex within 2 min walk) i know it's not all down to leases as the stores where I shop still had years left on them so something else seems afoot. Either that or they got a dartboard and just started chucking darts to pick. Strangely the 2 that have closed are pretty close to graingers so maybe that was why I don't know.

[spinpug666]

The list of store closures is a little misleading as two of the stores in Northern Ireland that are listed as closed are open!?

[Taka]

Am surprised the huge GS in Brum is gone as it always had a long line at the till and was always rammed. Tho I stopped going due to one annoying member of staff (Had to almost bargain with him to get me a new copy of Portal 2 and when buying Mario Kart 3D, after a puppet show trying to get me to buy a pair of Star Wars toys he actually scanned through the guide book I told him I didnt want because it was too great to allow me to pass up....I just walked out) But my local lives on happily. Just need some stock now.

I too was surprised to see the New Street Gamestation close. Always had a pretty good vibe in there and I remember when they first opened with a small retro museum in the basement. I can only suspect that possibly, they only had a 10 year lease on the place and decided to let it go given it opened circa 2003/2004.

I'm not shocked that the Pallasades GAME closed given that John Lewis will be opening in the space above the train station in the next few years, making the place a building site imminently and thus reducing foot flow.

Hard to imagine that at one stage, there were 3 GAME stores and 2 Gamestation stores in Birmingham city centre around the middle of the 2000s.

[elaniel]

The closures are surprising. There were 3 Game's and one Gamestation in Coventry, and they only closed one which is in the precinct, the others are still open.

It must have something to do with keeping the units with the smallest rents to them or something like that (with some of the profitable stores also being kept).