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Category: Retail
What’s Coming For December 2019 On Xadara
Now that the insanity of this past week (including Black Friday) is over, just what do I have planned for December 2019? Well, to start off with, I’m going to bloody rest. This past week has been non-stop work for me in one form or another – I cranked out more articles than normal for […]
We’re Preparing For Black Friday Already. Joy.
In past years I’ve written about working in retail during the holiday season, from the perspective of both an employee at big box retailers as well as one in a one-off game store. Honestly, I always want to write more about retail, but never seem to make time for it. Now, however, is as good […]
How To Fail At Giving Away The PlayStation Classic
I know, I’ know — I’m beyond late for writing about this. Get over it, I wanted to weigh in myself on this hilarious little attempt Best Buy made back in late April on getting rid of some of their certainly slow-moving stock of the PlayStation Classic console. Here’s what the deal was – on […]
Free Video Game Day 2019
I’m a few weeks behind on writing about this, but I wanted to share the experience of Free Video Game Day 2019 for those who may find it interesting from the point of view of the retailers. The event is simply a way for game stores to give back to their customer base. The idea […]
I, For One, Welcome The Return Of New Coke
I’ve only been wanting to try it for most of my life. Time to explain. We all know the story. Coca-Cola was losing market share in soft drinks to Pepsi. The legendary, nearly century old Coke Formula seemed “stale” to the American populace. Something needed to done, and the answer was to change things. A […]
“You Don’t Start On The Next One Until You Finish The Last One?” – A PlayStation 4 Repair Story.
We get in quite a few repairs at work. It’s not our focus by any means but alongside the normal business of the used game market we offer repair services. For reasons I won’t speculate on here, our most common repair requests are for PlayStation 4 consoles. Normally (as in, about 75% of our repairs […]
For Me, Toys-R-Us Died Today
Officially, all Toys-R-Us stores in the United States close Friday, June 29th, 2018. What seems like a large portion of them, though, shut down today, the 28th, if not earlier depending on how quickly their merchandise sold out. For me, personally, the end came today when the store I not only worked at for the […]
Free Video Game Day 2018
Today was quite the interesting one in the gaming community, and was something I actually wasn’t aware of till just a few weeks ago: Free Video Game Day. It functions much like Free Comic Book Day does for, well, the comic book community. The different is FCBD is sponsored by the comic book industry, directly […]
The Idiocy Of The “Millenials Not Having Kids Killed Toys R Us” Argument
Apparently a few days ago, the higher ups at the corpse of a company that is Toys R Us made a statement claiming that “millenials not having kids” is what killed their company. Not just that, but quite a few news agencies and “reputable” business sites are repeating this narrative in what seems like a […]
The Death Of Toys-R-Us
Back in September of last year, toy retail chain Toys-R-Us filed for bankruptcy. At the time, everyone across the internet, in their complete lack of comprehension on how anything works, proclaimed the end of the company, and began wondering when stores would start closing. This wasn’t the case at the time – far from it. […]
We May Finally Be Coming To The Beginning Of The End Of the Compact Disc
The Compact Disc, commonly known simply as “CD, the primary distribution method of music over the past nearly 30 years, is on its way out. This isn’t anything new to anyone – digital music sales have been climbing over the past decade, and now well surpass sales of physical media on a whole. The CD, […]
Spin Street Has Closed And Why That Doesn’t Surprise Me In The Least
I mentioned early last November that Spin Street, a well known local music and video store here in Memphis, was closing. That event finally happened on the 25th of January – right at the end of the financial year. On that day, Spin Street closed its doors after 2 months of some quite intense liquidation […]
When Something Is Called “The Future,” It Never Really Is…
Following behind my previous article about hype culture, I wanted to discuss another trend in how upcoming things are discussed. This is something that goes in well with hype culture but deserves its own little bit of discussion: that is, when someone says something is “the future.” You will hear this one all the time […]
The First Black Friday I Didn’t Have To Work In Years
Today was the day after Thanksgiving, a day well known here in the States, as well as other countries, as “Black Friday”, traditionally the day that the holiday season properly begins. While this traditional identity is a complete load, with seasonal items and music being present as early as late October in some situations, this […]