Gamestop Absorbs Rhino Videogames

[Jetman]

Well, I guess its not really news anymore and its front page on CAG:

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/

Gamestop bought out Rhino Videogames from Blockbuster. I work at Rhino now and for some reason employees werent supposed to know until managers had come back from the takeover meeting. ( I guess because some employees were too disgusted with the news and walked out on the job or something) So I had the pleasure of finding out from some of our long time customers yesterday. No more 2 for 1 's , no more 7 day exchanges, no more used strat guides for $1.99, and no more old school stuff (NES, Sega, Playstation - I always enjoyed seeing all of the retro stuff come into the store).

[ChaoofNee]

I've never heard of Rhino Videogames before this.

Now, I wish the takeover went the other way. The US needs more stores like that.

[gamevet]

I live in a small town 10 miles from Dallas. We had a Rhino games here last summer, but they had to close shop. I really liked the store, because it had a large selection of older titles for Dreamcast, Playstation, N64 and SNES. Plus, the prices of the new and used games were pretty good.

[Advocate]

Agree with Chao. Never heard of Rhino, but this glut of crappy cookie cutter corporate gaming stores needs to stop.

But it won't.

[Thief Silver]

Aren't they on the verge on Monopolizing? I mean buying out their competition like this...

[ChaoofNee]

Wal-Mart sells games, too.

So, no.

[Yoshi]

Rhino is more or less a southeast chain, although there isn't one near me. This news sucks, because GameStop's used game market now has one less competitor.

[Jetman]

I've never heard of Rhino Videogames before this.

Now, I wish the takeover went the other way. The US needs more stores like that.

Yeah, its mostly a SE chain but they were starting to spread out. It was just nice to work in a store and not shovel preorders, subscriptions, and other bullshit down peoples throats. We always enjoyed just talking to customers as normal gamers and not as sales people, and garnered a lot of trust for it. Hopefully, that doesnt have to change too much now that we are working for the suits, but I kind of doubt it.

[Revoltor]

Gamestop is the Wii of videogame stores.

Get your shit at a real store like Best Buy or Circuit City.

[Thief Silver]

Now, is it illegal, to sell your company, than restart it under a different name with the same policies etc?