Administrator PwC has today closed the doors on 277 of The GAME Group’s 609 UK and Ireland stores, MCV understands.
The result is that by the end of the day around 2,104 GAME employees will have lost their jobs - 40 per cent of its UK workforce.
15 of these jobs have been lost from its Basingstoke head office with the rest coming from its stores.
Although all remaining stores are safe for the time being, their survival depends on the timely discovery of a willing investor. If a buyer is not found in the near future further store closures will likely be announced.
Please don't give the staff in the (still) open shops a load of grief because you can't use your cards. IT'S NOT THE STORE STAFFS FAULT. Some customers have been quite abusive!
Just seen on my facebook feed that the GAME in Meadowhall (Sheffield) has been closed. Sounds like my friend has lost her job. Gotta feel sorry for the employees.
Not been to Meadowhall for a while but the last time i was in they had 2 Games and a Gamestation. Have they all closed?
Does anyone know if Game in Truro will close?. I dont hold out much hope of it surviving as there in an HMV in town already but you never know and its not on the list .
I know when Peacocks went into administration some stores opened back up.
But of the list most of th Scotland stores look set to be closed. I don't think there's any Priceless Shoes in Scotland now either after two administrations.
Also I wonder how they can find a buyer when they have axed all the big stores?
I wondered the same thing.
There seems to be a lot of the ones in big shopping centres too, where to the layman like me, you would have thought business would be better than the smaller locations.
Take Lakeside for example, both closed according to the list above. Interesting to close both rather than say to themselves we'll keep one, then shut the other, you'd think most of the customers from the other store would go down to the other store...
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Hemel Hemstead - both stores
Belfast
Newcastle - both stores
GAMESTATION
Fife Glenrothes
Newcastle
Presumably both stores.
Doesn't bode well for the GS store just down the road from them.
A shame, Congleton GS gone too.
Administrator PwC has today closed the doors on 277 of The GAME Group’s 609 UK and Ireland stores, MCV understands.
The result is that by the end of the day around 2,104 GAME employees will have lost their jobs - 40 per cent of its UK workforce.
15 of these jobs have been lost from its Basingstoke head office with the rest coming from its stores.
Although all remaining stores are safe for the time being, their survival depends on the timely discovery of a willing investor. If a buyer is not found in the near future further store closures will likely be announced.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/store-closures-begin-at-game-and-gamestation/093365
Gamestation Wakefield has closed, daughter works for GAME and can confirm this. No news for Wakefield GAME as yet.
Yes, I've read that the closure affects both the upper and lower floor GAME stores.
I'm unaware whether or not Gamestation will continue, though as you say it doesn't bode well.
Please don't give the staff in the (still) open shops a load of grief because you can't use your cards. IT'S NOT THE STORE STAFFS FAULT. Some customers have been quite abusive!
Not been to Meadowhall for a while but the last time i was in they had 2 Games and a Gamestation. Have they all closed?
closed today
Sad to see so many local Game shops closing. The Canterbury Game shop was one of my favourites when Folkestone didn't have one.
It seems that everyone will have to come to Folkestone.
There hasn't been a store there for ages.
Well especially when big ones like Newcastle and Glasgow were axed. Surely more profitable than three close by?
They have axed all the stores making a loss
I know when Peacocks went into administration some stores opened back up.
But of the list most of th Scotland stores look set to be closed. I don't think there's any Priceless Shoes in Scotland now either after two administrations.
There seems to be a lot of the ones in big shopping centres too, where to the layman like me, you would have thought business would be better than the smaller locations.
Take Lakeside for example, both closed according to the list above. Interesting to close both rather than say to themselves we'll keep one, then shut the other, you'd think most of the customers from the other store would go down to the other store...