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GameStop selling 500+ stores because of "woke". (htxt.co.za)
submitted 2 days ago by Cat@ponder.cat to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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  • GameStop is hoping somebody will buy its Canadian and French operations.
  • This amounts to over 500 physical stores across both nations.
  • The company’s CEO decried “Liberalism, Socialism, Progressivism, Wokeness and DEI” within his firm while shopping for a buyer.
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[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Weird sales pitch. I'm not sure who he is trying to appeal to here?

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't think any of these nutters have experienced the things they rail against. I'm not in the US, but from where I'm standing you guys haven't had any of that stuff since before Reagan.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

DEI was policy during the Biden admin. It basically boiled down to employees having to take a yearly training telling us to respect coworkers backgrounds/identities and pronouns. It's not a bad thing and it sure as fuck didn't kill GameStop.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

That really depends, a lot of orgs took it way too far by having hiring quotas and whatnot.

Our DEI thing was pretty straightforward. We already do something in the on-boarding process about psychological safety, so we just added some optional DEI sessions w/ free lunch where minorities would talk about their life story and struggles related to being a minority. That's it, and it was really enjoyable.

But yeah, it's completely unrelated to why Gamestop is selling stuff off. Their business is failing due to natural shifts in consumer spending patterns (who goes to gamestop to buy games anymore?), so they need to scale back.

[–] HorreC@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

thats what the space needs, a right wing game store that only sells xbox shooters and laughs are your K/D avg when you come in.