GameStop Stores
GameStop continues to close stores as part of ongoing efforts to improve the financial health of the company
- At its peak, GameStop had approximately 7,500 stores in 2016
- Since 2016, GameStop has reduced the total number of stores every year
- As of fiscal year 2025 results, GameStop had 2,206 stores
According to GameStop's fiscal year 2025 10-K form, "Each year, we conduct a comprehensive review of our store portfolio to identify underperforming locations for closure based on market conditions, operational performance, and other relevant factors. This review resulted in the closure of 727 stores in the United States during fiscal 2025. At this time, we do not anticipate closing a significant number of stores in fiscal 2026, as our domestic store footprint remains a core component of our logistics infrastructure strategy."
“The first quarter of 2025 was our first profitable first quarter since 2019.
It's the results of cutting costs, reducing excess inventory, streamlining headcount, closing unprofitable stores, exiting under-performing geographies, and focusing on the core fundamentals of the business.”
In line with GameStop's turnaround efforts, the company has continued to close stores through fiscal year 2025.
“With respect to retail operations, we plan to continue reducing costs and focusing on profitability... This means a smaller network of stores with an expanded assortment of higher value items that fit into our trade-in model.”
Amidst GameStop's attempt to acquire eBay, Ryan Cohen has provided some insight about the potential synergy between GameStop's and eBay's businesses.
“And the benefit also we have with the [GameStop] stores beyond basically fixing the platform, the front end and the back end [of eBay], using the [GameStop] stores, there's 1,600 essentially nodes, that can be used as studios for creators. They could be used as fulfillment and logistics and ultimately allowing sellers and content creators to do what they do best which is create content, and we can help them on photography, we can help them on fulfillment, we can help them on logistics. And we can also do the authentication, and that extends to the marketplace model as well. So I would focus a lot on growing the live commerce side of things beyond the cost cutting.”
GameStop used to operate stores in over 15 countries. Over the last 10+ years, GameStop has closed most of their international locations.
Presently, GameStop operates stores in the following countries:
- USA 🇺🇸 (1,598 stores)
- France 🇫🇷 (308 stores, actively pursuing sale of French operations)
- Australia 🇦🇺 (300 stores)
In the past, GameStop has operated in the following countries:
- Austria (ended FY 2023)
- Canada (ended FY 2025)
- Denmark (ended FY 2020)
- Finland (ended FY 2020)
- Germany (ended FY 2024)
- Ireland (ended FY 2023)
- Italy (ended FY 2024)
- New Zealand (ended FY 2025)
- Norway (ended FY 2020)
- Portugal (ended FY 2012)
- Spain (ended FY 2014)
- Sweden (ended FY 2020)
- Switzerland (ended FY 2023)
- United Kingdom (ended FY 2012)
