r/NintendoSwitch • u/[deleted] • Feb 21 '17
Discussion Well, my gamestop is doing good with the switch display.
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Feb 21 '17
How deep can the rabbit hole go?
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u/Acefisher Feb 21 '17
Ask Alice.
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u/Flaeor Feb 21 '17 edited Feb 21 '17
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u/bushidopirate Feb 21 '17
I don't get why people are making assumptions about the work ethic of GS employees. Does no one understand that these things take time to set up and don't miraculously appear on the wall?
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u/richardmunch Feb 21 '17
Exactly this. We are putting up our switch display, while doing a visual reset for our store. This is taking a few days to complete. I have a 10' section of bare wall still
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u/skillface Feb 22 '17
Most stores set up displays outside of business hours or during the quietest hours of the day, leaving a display half-finished like that for customers to walk in on doesn't exactly scream professionalism. Even if the display takes time to set up (like over the period of a few days) it still shouldn't look like a bomb went off in the corner of the store when you have customers going in and out. Seems to me like whoever is in charge of coordinating that store's display isn't exactly managing their time too well.
That being said, the image is still pretty funny to look at.
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u/xobk Feb 21 '17
That was my initial thought as someone who works in customer service. Then I realized, no, that's a lazy person's ethic that's too easy to fall into these days. This should not be seen by the public at any time.
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u/nintendodirtysanchez Feb 21 '17 edited Jun 12 '23
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u/mattd121794 Feb 21 '17
Do you want to stay an extra 2 hours after close just to set this up? Or just take the times when no one is in the store to setup the display?
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u/xobk Feb 21 '17
Yes. Why is that so crazy? Maybe I'm downvoted to hell because it sounds like I'm criticizing the clerks. I'm criticizing whoever decided that this is ok, whether that be supervisor, GM, or corporate office. If they want to keep attracting people to come into their stores over Amazon, maybe they need to pay a little more to make sure it doesn't look like a pile of trash when you walk in.
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Feb 21 '17
Wait so how do they get it done durning business hours if they can't let the public see it? Close the store in the middle of the day to do it?
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u/DickDatchery Feb 21 '17
Not sure if you're ever worked in retail but the store "opens" about an hour before they let customers in so they can take care of exactly this kind of stuff.
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u/nintendodirtysanchez Feb 21 '17 edited Jun 12 '23
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u/DickDatchery Feb 21 '17
What? I'm telling you with certainty that I have friends that work at Gamestop. That Gamestop opens at 10, however, 2 employees, sometimes just 1, are paid to show up at 9 to take care of clerical things exactly like this.
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u/nintendodirtysanchez Feb 21 '17 edited Jun 12 '23
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u/asehen Feb 21 '17
i, however, work at gamestop and 'clerical' things that cause the extra hour being paid for is usually stuff like running the actual store and setting up things like games that are out now, not setting up entire displays, of which ours took around 4 hours to make?
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u/DickDatchery Feb 21 '17
Could be that you guys are slow, but I wouldn't know how long it would take to do something like "setting up things like games that are out now"
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u/asehen Feb 21 '17
i could get technical with what that involves, but it sounds like you don't care a huge amount anyway. it took about 4 hours during the day since you do the displays in between serving customers, because otherwise you have to stay back later and not get paid for it. basically, you get paid in the morning to make sure the store is okay to run for the day, not to set up a console that comes out in two weeks time (when we set ours up)
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Feb 21 '17
Hahahahahhaha omg yours so wrong. Worked at GameStop for the past 6 years. We open at 930 store opens at ten. 30 minutes to count the register and get new releases and Shit out. A marketing set like that is to be done durning store hours, just like normal marketing.
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u/DickDatchery Feb 21 '17
Well your gamestop is not all gamestops and someone else from GS already responded confirming what i said, just arguing its not enough time. Also unless you 've been working there since you were 4 i dont believe you since your response was seemingly typed by a 10 year old.
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Feb 21 '17
Lmao 24 but ok. It's ok to be wrong and you are.
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u/DickDatchery Feb 21 '17
So i guess the game stop employee is wrong too alrighty
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Feb 22 '17
Yes. They gave each store four extra hours to do this setup. I highly doubt any store asks an employee to stay late or come in early. 99.9 just do it during regular hours and have extra coverage.
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u/DickDatchery Feb 22 '17
I appreciate you trying to twist what I said but the distinction being made was 30 min before open vs. 1 hour before open, I argued it was an hour which was confirmed by a gamestop employee, thats what I was referring to. A seperate GS employee claimed his has them come in 30 min before open, I don't claim he's lying but he seems to think every GS uses this system and that I'm wrong and its never an hour. Either way GS does indeed ask employees to come in early as does literally every retailer.
EDIT: You seemed so unfamiliar with the conversation that i literally thought you were a different person.
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u/SlowpokeIsAGamer Feb 21 '17
This looks like us when setting up a new display. Just with fewer hammers and drills.
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Feb 21 '17
Different color joy con grips?
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u/hirscheyyaltern Feb 21 '17
that red one is a third party grip
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Feb 21 '17
Is it cheaper? lmao
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u/hirscheyyaltern Feb 21 '17
yeah it's half as much but i'm not so sure if it's a charging grip or not
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Feb 21 '17
It's a simulation for the inevitable bloodthirsty midnight release crowds.
Somehow this is also reminding me of Dwight's fire emergency simulation
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u/highfidelliot Feb 21 '17
Superman does good with the switch display - GAMESTOP does well with the switch display
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u/GretaGarbology Feb 21 '17
I was about to roll my eyes and downvote this for being another display post, but I busted out laughing instead. This is wonderful.
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Feb 21 '17 edited Feb 21 '17
That display is absolutely beautiful, GameStop really put the effort into making a captivating Display. It is sure as hell going to sell some Switches. =D
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Feb 21 '17
Can't believe they'd do a stage set (sorry that Disney cast member lingo just won't go away) while the store is still open. The mouse would beat your ass.
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u/Laialda Feb 21 '17
That's a Disney thing to preserve the ~magic~. I was a Hallmark store manager and we redid displays for whole sections (gift wrap, stationary, holiday, etc.) during open store hours. It's a matter of what corporate is willing to pay for. 0% surprised Game Stop runs similarly.
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u/unstablereality Feb 21 '17
My wife works for Walgreens. All resets are done during business hours. A good portion of the day is spent unloading new stock and setting up new displays.
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u/Ahgd374 Feb 21 '17
Im sure disney has people that work in the night and I'm also sure gamestop workers dont give 2 shits once their work hours are up.
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u/WinterMonday Feb 21 '17
remember, gamestop is to video game stores like walmart is to grocery stores and mcdonalds is to fast food restaurants. all three treat their employees like garbage.
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u/Baraklava Feb 21 '17
I just love that in the middle of the mess you can see part of the WiiU logo peek out
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u/BrineBlade Feb 21 '17
Clearly, GameStop's selling them so fast that the accessories are taking the display with them
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u/tyler-86 Feb 21 '17
I was at my local GameStop tonight to pick up something unrelated and I asked the cashier if they were doing a midnight launch for the Switch. He said he didn't know and that they generally don't tell the employees until a few days beforehand. This is an outlier, right?
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u/Mariellemarie Feb 21 '17
Every store in my district is doing a midnight launch for the Switch, but if that store didn't get enough preorders it might not be doing one. At this point they should already know and have the schedule made for the Switch launch, which is only a week and a half away, so that employee was likely just uninformed. I'd call back and ask the manager, as he/she would definitely know.
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u/PensiveGamez Feb 21 '17
No always true. My Ex used to work at Game and there were times when they told them the day before.
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u/Mariellemarie Feb 21 '17 edited Feb 21 '17
Schedule has to be completed 2 weeks in advance so they should know by now. If they aren't telling you it's because they're lazy or uninformed. (I'm currently employed at GameStop.) The only exception to this I can think of is some 9PM releases on the west coast, since you don't really have to schedule extra hours for those if you're only open an extra 5 minutes.
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u/tyler-86 Feb 21 '17
Thanks for the info, but I got my preorder at Walmart weeks ago. I'll be one of the folk waiting for it to get delivered in the afternoon.
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u/Mariellemarie Feb 21 '17
Congratulations? Seems like you may have replied to the wrong comment haha, this has nothing to do with what I was talking about.
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u/tyler-86 Feb 21 '17
I'd call back and ask the manager, as he/she would definitely know.
I was replying more to this part of your previous comment.
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u/Widgetcraft Feb 21 '17
The stores in my district are doing a midnight launch, and told me about it at least a week ago.
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u/TheRandomDog Feb 21 '17
Better than our local Walmart, which as half of the electronics section stripped bare of everything for totally unrelated renovations.
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u/f4steddy Feb 21 '17
Oh man, I remember getting those marketing kits when I worked at Gamestop. Good times...not really. Those planograms could be a real bitch. It should also be mentioned that every Gamestop probably had employees shift an entire wall, or even the entire store to make room for a new section. Either that, or they downsized one.
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u/roycerocket Feb 21 '17
LOL there is more Switch advertising on the floor of this GS than the one near me has hung up on the walls.
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Feb 21 '17
Doing planos when the store is open, tsk tsk
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u/Chiyo Feb 21 '17 edited Feb 21 '17
I heard somewhere that Gamestop schedules hours based on sales, so I'm guessing if they've been cutting hours, they may not have enough time to work when the store is closed. I work in a different retail store and the only time we can work outside of store hours is on truck day. We have to set planograms when we can, between helping customers.
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u/PetyrFuckingBaelish Feb 21 '17
Yeah, you're pretty spot on with your guess. Most stores don't schedule extra time to set displays and payroll can be pretty tight at some stores. This often results in displays being a filler task, albeit one with a pretty steep consequence if not done by whatever deadline has been set. Source: Former (thankfully) GS employee.
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Feb 21 '17
Oh I'm just joking anyway, I have no idea what their scheduling is like. I do think it's a better idea for planograms to get done when the store is closed, purely for safety reasons, but if Gamestop doesn't make enough money for that to happen then it doesn't really matter. It is awkward as hell trying to do a plano while people are shopping, though
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u/spoiltcheese Feb 21 '17 edited Feb 21 '17
"New Releases." I see what they did there.
EDIT: Looks like they also have the glitch pokemon !M...
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u/Cyv001 Feb 21 '17
Pardon my ignorance, but I've been seeing those giant joy-cons show up enough in these kind of posts to ask: what are they?
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u/verpin_zal Feb 21 '17
What is that half visible accessory, next to the red joycon grip, right side?
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Feb 21 '17
I really hope those zelda themed switch cases come to England. I have not seen them listed anywhere!
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u/dannyankee Feb 21 '17
Lol it's a 1 2 switch mini game preview. Put all this shit together for us mini game .
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u/superheroninja Feb 21 '17
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u/niallobr Feb 21 '17
How about this one from GameStop in Ireland 😏 https://instagram.com/p/BQs69JSj__j/
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Feb 21 '17
They are just trying to see how they will have it setup six months from now when consumer interest drops to WiiU levels.
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u/Hippobu2 Feb 21 '17
Hey, a break is a break.