They also own Zing Pop Culture, and Game Informer Magazine.

I know we're all here playing the mechanics of the short squeeze or just piling in to try and stick it to the wall street smucks. BUTT, it's always good to know something about what you're buying.

From their Feb 2020, 10-K SEC filing:

> As of February 1, 2020, we had a total of 5,509 stores across all of our segments; United States (3,642), Canada (299), Australia (426) and Europe (1,142). Our stores and e-commerce sites operate primarily under the names GameStopTM (“GameStop”), EB GamesTM (“EB Games”) and Micromania.

(...)

> Our segments also include 88 pop culture themed stores selling collectibles, apparel, gadgets, electronics, toys and other retail products for technology enthusiasts and general consumers, with 55 collectibles stores in international markets operating under the Zing Pop Culture brand and 33 stores in the United States operating under the ThinkGeek brand. Our brands also include Game InformerTM (“Game Informer”) magazine, the world's leading print and digital video game publication.

(...)

> #####Employees > We have approximately 14,000 full-time salaried and hourly employees and between 22,000 and 42,000 part-time hourly employees worldwide, depending on the time of year.

Edit: Forgot the 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🪐💎🙌. Please forgive me.

\"Talk is cheap, it takes money to buy whiskey\" - Ryan Cohen

Ryan Cohen war der Gründer und CEO von Chewy, ein E-Commerce-Unternehmen spezialisiert auf Haustiere, das er im Alter von nur 25 Jahren gründete. Im Jahr 2017 verkaufte er Chewy im Rahmen eines 3,3 Mrd. USD Deal an PetSmart, um andere persönliche Ziele zu verfolgen.

Dann begann die Investorenseite von Ryan Cohen an Berühmtheit zu gewinnen. Nach dem Verkauf von Chewy investierte er sein Geld in nur zwei Unternehmen Apple und Wells Fargo. Bei Apple wurde er sogar zum größten Einzelinvestor mit rund 6 Millionen Aktien.

Ende 2020 war Cohen auch zum größten Einzelaktionär von GameStop geworden, nachdem er 10% der GME-Aktien erworben und seinen Anteil anschließend auf etwa 13% erhöht hatte. Diese Investitionen wurden vor der außergewöhnlichen Preisexplosion der GameStop-Aktie Ende Januar 2021 getätigt. Kurze Zeit später im April wurde er zum Charmain des Verwaltungsrats ernannt. (Auzug aus TheStreet Artikel)

Sein Investmentansatz formuliert Ryan Cohen wie folgt:

>Es ist, zumindest für mich, sehr schwer, großartige Ideen zu finden. Wenn ich etwas finde, wovon ich wirklich überzeugt bin, dann gehe ich All-In. (Auzug aus Bloomberg Artikel)

Als Ryan Cohen jedoch mit Chewy 2011 startete, wurde er von den meisten Investoren abgelehnt...

>Friedman: Sie wurden von 100 verschiedenen Investoren abgelehnt. Was haben Sie aus diesem Prozess gelernt? Was hat Sie dazu gebracht, weiterzumachen, als Sie immer wieder ein Nein hörten?
>
>Cohen: Für mich hörte sich jedes Nein so an, als ob sie meine Vision einfach nicht verstanden hätten. Das war manchmal frustrierend, aber nie entmutigend. Diese "Neins" haben mich nie an meiner Strategie zweifeln lassen - im Gegenteil. Alle Ablehnungen haben mich motiviert, und sie haben mich nur noch mehr angespornt. (Auzug aus Forbes Interview)

Es sei zu erwähnen, dass GameStop mit ["Game Informer" das größte digitale Zeitschriftenabonnement der Welt hat](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Inf

This text was originally written in German and only quickly thrown into the translator. So won't be surprised if the grammar is wrong in some places.     

\"Talk is cheap, it takes money to buy whiskey\" - Ryan Cohen

Ryan Cohen was the CEO of Chewy, an e-commerce company specializing in pets, which he founded when he was just 25 years old. In 2017, he sold Chewy to PetSmart in a $3.3 billion deal to pursue other personal goals.

Then Ryan Cohen's investor side began to gain notoriety. After selling Chewy, he invested his money in only two companies Apple and Wells Fargo. In Apple, he even became the largest single investor with about 6 million shares.

By the end of 2020, Cohen had also become GameStop's largest single shareholder after acquiring 10% of GME's stock and subsequently increasing his stake to about 13%. These investments were made before the extraordinary price explosion in GameStop stock in late January 2021. Shortly thereafter in April, he was named charmain of the board of directors. (Excerpt from TheStreet article)

Ryan Cohen articulates his investment approach as follows:

>It's very hard, at least for me, to find great ideas. When I find something I'm really convinced of, I go all-in. (Excerpt from Bloomberg article)

However, when Ryan Cohen started Chewy in 2011, he was rejected by most investors....

>Friedman: You were rejected by 100 different investors. What did you learn from that process? What made you keep going when you kept hearing no?
>
>Cohen: To me, every no sounded like they just didn't understand my vision. That was frustrating at times, but never discouraging. Those "no's" never made me doubt my strategy - quite the opposite. All the rejections motivated me, and they only spurred me on. (Excerpt from Forbes interview)

He goes on to say that

>Cohen: Most investors couldn't overcome two hurdles: direct competition with Amazon and the failure of pets.com during the dot-com bubble. However, I believed that

I will start with a classical disclaimer that I am a completely smooth-brained EU silverback. However, sometimes it happens that I have a spark in my brain and then I can generate a single smart idea like once in a year or smth. This time I think I cracked the 7 4 1 code, at least this sounds like a very good and simple explanation to me.

\"GameStop Family\"

As you can see here are 7 companies that together create a GameStop family. I think in 2021, GameStop is working on killing foreign retail branches of GameStop like EBGames (Canada), GameStopZing (EU) and Micromania (France) which will result in 4 companies remaining: GameStop, ThinkGeek, gameinformer and GameStop Gives. As the next step, they will merge everything into one company named just GameStop. This goes very well with the muted brand colors on GS socials. Ofc this is pure speculation at this point, but I think that 741 is a name of their strategy, something like "Plan 741" to get rid of the other sub-brands, being pushed by RC for better brand recognition worldwide.

First of all, i'm french so you can expect some weird phrasing in this post.

TLDR at the end.

In France, we have these stores called Micromania. Idk how exactly they relate to gamestop, if it is just a brand or a separate entity, if they run independently or not...

How françapes (pronounce franss-apes) see this store ? Pricy, useless, thiefs.

They price games far over what you can find in a typical supermarket (Carrefour) .

(i will refer to the prices i actually saw with my own eyes recently)

Every Nintendo games, at the release date, is minimum 60€ at Micromania. in the same mall, we have Carrefour that sells it at 45€. What i mean by in the same mall, is that you have basically 200 meters to walk to save 15€ on a game. and we have plenty malls like this all over the country (i guess it's based on americans' mall)

You can trick the system by :

-buy your games at 45€

-resell it at Micromania for 35€ (basically the price they buy it within the first 2 weeks of the release)

-you just finished a brand new game, and you only paid 10€

-You go the next day in the store, you will find your used game at 50€ (sometimes 55€, sometimes 59€...)

we still find used mario Odyssey at 55€ where i'm living. Zelda Botw at 60€ (they sell it 70€ sealed)

So, ok if you're someone who consume games like ice cream, it's a model that works well. but it profits only for you and Micromania, where the bagholder is ,in the end, the guy who will buy used games.

If you want to buy a gaming system, it's the same : price higher at Micromania, plus they sell you a guarantee extension, and by selling, i mean something like :

"please dear customer, my paycheck is based on minimum wage, my only bonus comes from the guarantee extension i'm selling you, pls pls take it i need to feed my cat".

(it's just my imagination, but my guess is that they are indeed underpaid).

When you enter in the store, you don't feel like a customer, but more like a wallet with feet (and that is true in a lot of other stores, maybe it's part of french approach with retail business, idk)

When i see you all talking about gamestop, how they are great with customers, also i see the normal prices...

i wonder, when is it coming to France ?

I think Micromania have a huge market with all the Zing products, but i want GPUs, mechanical keyboards, 144hz 49" 32/9 gaming screens, free used games... not the last FunkoPop thingy.

I can't really speak about customer support, since the only time i

I've created this list back in March and its a full, up to date list, with reference numbers from that period of what the numbers per social channel were. Also broken down per country.

Will re-post this once in a while so that all apes see it

What you can do:

• Upvote so that other apes see & action upon it if you already did!

• Join the social media channels (if you think they are worth following!)

  • No account? Just create one you tard, you don't need to use it

• Leave some good feedback under their posts (if you find them interesting!)

  • Likes and comments on FB, Likes/reteweets on twitter, Likes and comments on Youtube

• Rate their apps (if you think they are good!)

• Leave them feedback on review pages (if you think their service is good!)

• Order something from their store if you planned to buy something anyways - games, consoles. If you need a shirt, get a GameStop merch shirt. If not, spend the money on the stock instead!

I've categorized it per-country, but feel free to drop your likes/follows on all of these

US APES

Social media:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GameStop ( 6,741,119 likes)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GameStop (1.6mil followers)

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX1aoT25QZzgGQJo4uCtRxw (87.5k subscribers)

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gamestop/?hl=en (2mil followers)

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/gamestop (30.7k followers)

TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMemXGjfC/ (78.9k followers)

Mobile apps

iOS app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gamestop/id406033647 (#77 in Shopping, 4.2 • 9.6K Ratings)

Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gamestop.powerup ( 3.9, 87,015 reviews)

Review pages (DO NOT FUCKING LEAVE A FEEDBACK IF YOU NEVER USED THEIR SERVICES YOU TARD. BUY SOMETHING FIRST)

Trustpilot: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.gamestop.com (2.2,1161 reviews)

Consumeraffairs: https://www.consumeraffairs.com/home_electronics/gamestop.html (3.2?, 619 ratings)

Guys, girls, degens in any form,

GME has earnings coming up in a few months and we still have time to BOOST the shit out of this thing. The quarter officially closes Jan 31. This means we have until the end of the month to pump GME's sales and membership counts.

Here's the action plan-

Step 1 - Download the App and upgrade to a Powerup Rewards Pro membership

• Increased Membership counts and App downloads/ratings demonstrate that GME is picking up candidates for reoccurring sales which is very attractive from an investor's POV

Step 2 - Buy something, fucking anything*

• Video Games
• Consoles
• Accessories (Headsets, Controllers, Peripherals)
• Electronics (Cell Phones, Tablets, Smart Watches, Speakers, TVS & Monitors, Drones, HOVERBOARDS)
• Toys & Collectibles
• Games & Puzzles (Card games, Trading cards, Board games)
• Clothing (Tshirts, Hats, Costumes, Backpacks, Laptop Bags)

Buy it for yourself, your friend, your wife's boyfriend, my mom.

Ima buy my GF a Nintendo Switch with these fucking tendies that have been graced upon me

*Note #1: If you pre-order a product or buy GME gift cards before Jan 31 they will be counted as a liability (debt) until the product is shipped or gift card redeemed. Any pre-order can be assumed to be a debt for this Quarter if the order is placed before Jan 31. If you buy a gift card and don't redeem it before Jan 31 it will count against GME for this quarter. Ultimately, pre-orders are good for business and so are gift card sales, as long as they are eventually redeemed.

Note #2: Try to use the App for your purchases. Take notes on anything frustrating about the user experience while you are making the purchases. I've already noted a bunch of Feedback that would be easy for them to change.

Step 3 - PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON THE APP

The feedback section on the App can be found by navigating to \"Profile > (scroll all the way down) > About/Feedback > Send Feedback > App Review\"

• Submit any feedback from the notes you took while making your purchases
• What the fuck is better than thousands of degenerates Quality Assurance testing the GameStop App and filing bugs? It takes a huge workload off internal GME resources and we, as the users, are in

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

They were cooked in Greece.

First off I want to say happy 1 year anniversary for the Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions video game. So when I got the Bandai Namco Entertainment Uniform Set (Uniform Set 7) in early February this year, I notice there was 3 slots missing between the Hawk Uniform Set (Uniform Set 8) and the Toho Academy Uniform Set (Uniform Set 12). I was doing research to find out these are all region exclusive to Europe (Uniform Set 10 and Uniform Set 11) and the Arab League (so Asia and Africa) (Uniform Set 9). To unlock these Uniform Sets, you would have to buy the Collector Edition of the game and it will come with cleats and a soccer ball. This is a post of what the display of Uniform Sets would look like if you live in Europe since there is no Uniform Set 9 available in Europe. I'll have this Poll open for a week as I am writing this. These are the Uniform Sets I am talking about:

The Virgin Megastore Collaboration Uniform Set (Uniform Set 9) (which is exclusive to Asia and Africa)

The GameStopZing Collaboration Uniform Set (Uniform Set 10) (which is exclusive to Europe)

The Micromania Zing Collaboration Uniform Set (Uniform Set 11) (which is exclusive to Europe)

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Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

Guys, I'm shopping each day at GME in Paris !Stop posting about europoors not having GME, It's been here, for more than a decade !It's one of the most popular stores in all France, it was open during confinement even !I stood in lines for it !

It just has a french sexy name !

La baguette de mon enfance!La crème de la crème !Le roi et la reine !Le Zing des zangs!GME c'est le Micromania !!!

https://preview.redd.it/heax46263u171.jpg?width=1113&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be9a4ae0b61757deffb4a7593eea7e3229b4a808

And boy are my arms legs.

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

Me and my buddys have been trading casually for the last decade or so, nothing game-changing, our books have gone from green to red many times. When we first heard of this GME stuff, our first intial reaction was that DFV was just pulling a pump and dump and that this would all blow over in a month when he cashed out.

He didn't cash out, so we looked into the situation a bit more and checked some numbers/watched the volume trends and we noticed that DFV has found a potential, real world golden goose.Now, how is it a golden goose of stock? Quite simply: from around 2009-2019 GMEs average yearly revenue were 8B and the massive drop in revenue down to 5B has almost PURELY coincided with the 2019-2020 Coronavirus. The drop from 8-5B pretty much happens over the space of 12 months, granted their yearly revenue WAS dropping slightly before this, however if you ignore Corona and follow the trend, then they would be worth around 7B revenue in 2020, MUCH more then the current 5B.

What does this say? On a super simple level, it means that the company is currently undervalued by a shitload artificially because of the Corona and over the next ~3 years its recovery is almost certainly going to keep its current yearly revenue at minimum 5B, probably recovering to around 6(likely)-7.5B (optimistic).

Now we have seen a lot of FUD over GMEs future as brick and mortar store, this is nonsense. The notion that the online gaming market is already saturated is only half true. It would only be completely saturated if there was no more growth in consumers. However every year, more and more people continue to get access to gaming systems, and a lot of these people come from low income backgrounds where, SURPRISE, GME excels.

Why does GME excel? Firstly, GME also own EB Games. What is EB games? EB games are the biggest video game retailers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Now EB games already has a very sizeable online market, and in these countries have already started the transition from brick and mortar to online sales, and quite successfully so. They own Micromania, the Biggest video game retailer in France.

So while GME doesnt hold as much of a footing in America as say Steam/Valve, it still has pretty big plays in other countries. This completely destroys the notion that GME is unable to transform and specialize in something other than brick and mortar.Blockbusters and companies that have gone the way of extinction DID NOT have their hands in different companies in

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

So it recently occurred to me that GameStop has multiple subsidiaries, which are more common around the globe. As part of a global rebranding it would make sense for GameStop to maybe streamline some of these companies under a single name or at least a more streamlined brand identity. So let's have a look at look at their websites one by one, based on the GameStop Wiki page.

Cue the music

www.gamestop.com

The mother ship of this whole investigation. I'm not really an expert in investigating changes to a website, but the wayback machine seems to reveal a bigger overhaul to the visual flair on the website in March. Seems like the most well maintained site, as it would be the one with the most traffic.

Babbage's

It seems Babbage's Etc. used to be the parent company of GameStop in the 90's but later became a subsidiary. It was then sold to Barnes & Noble, and merged with Funco, Inc. During the 00's Funco changed it's name to GameStop, and spun off from Barnes& Noble. I could not find any website for Babbage's.

>What a sham. nothing I can do about that.

EB Games (Canada)

Seems pretty outdated by compassion. The menu bare seems comparable to what GameStop had in 2016. Could be time for an upgrade?

EB Games Australia

EB Games Australia seems to reveal a format, which is also used on other subsidiaries. Notice the "Choose a store" and "EB World" buttons in the top menu. I could not seem to locate any author or 3rd party web development teams in the meta tags, but it seems they have all the tracking you would expect from a well functioning website: Google Analytics, Facebook Connect, Google Tag Manager, and an email web campaigning tool called Silverpop (now known as Acoustic). One thing I notice is that a lot of stuff regarding the site is hosted on eb-cdn.com.au, which seems to also be used for other Australian sites related to GameStop.

Game Informer

The Game Informer website does not look like any of the other sites, but it does not really have to. It is an actual magazine, so the website serve more like a news/blog site than a web shop. A fair share of the header is taken up by Salesforce DMP (Data Mana

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

I've created this list back in March and its a full, up to date list, with reference numbers from that period of what the numbers per social channel were. Also broken down per country.

Will re-post this once in a while so that all apes see it

What you can do:

• Upvote so that other apes see & action upon it if you already did!
• Join the social media channels (if you think they are worth following!)
  • No account? Just create one you tard, you don't need to use it
• Leave some good feedback under their posts (if you find them interesting!)
  • Likes and comments on FB, Likes/reteweets on twitter, Likes and comments on Youtube
• Rate their apps (if you think they are good!)
• Leave them feedback on review pages (if you think their service is good!)
• Order something from their store if you planned to buy something anyways - games, consoles. If you need a shirt, get a GameStop merch shirt. If not, spend the money on the stock instead!

I've categorized it per-country, but feel free to drop your likes/follows on all of these

US APES

Social media:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GameStop ( 6,741,119 likes)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GameStop (1.6mil followers)

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX1aoT25QZzgGQJo4uCtRxw (87.5k subscribers)

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gamestop/?hl=en (2mil followers)

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/gamestop (30.7k followers)

TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMemXGjfC/ (78.9k followers)

Mobile apps

iOS app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gamestop/id406033647 (#77 in Shopping, 4.2 • 9.6K Ratings)

Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gamestop.powerup ( 3.9, 87,015 reviews)

GameInformer app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gameinformer.tablet

Review pages (DO NOT FUCKING LEAVE A FEEDBACK IF YOU NEVER USED THEIR SERVICES YOU TARD. BUY SOMETHING FIRST)

Trustpilot: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.gamestop.com (2.2,1161 reviews)

Consumeraf

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.