cant tell what the point of this 'confession' is all about. Is it just a rant? Is it trying to be negative or sympathetic to the company? If you want to know more about what its like, just ask anyone who has worked there. What this guy has said is nothing mind-blowing or astounding.
And every experience will be different. It's weird that he was 'on gutting duty'. Usually when you just get hired, you're on 'wall duty' and gutting is reserved for management or people who can be trusted to handle raw merchandise.
His 'reasons' for gutting are also suspect and askew, making me wonder how long he worked there. The very simple answer to gutting is that Gamestop likes to have an actual box on the floor for customers to look at and hold. Obviously GS wont let customers hold actual product (a case with a game inside it) so the company guts one New copy and places the empty box on the shelf so customers can see what we have in stock and touch it, feel it.
He's also a little off on this reasoning on why GameStop just doesnt make fake boxes for the new titles that we have in stock instead of using new ones.
I don't know GameStop's official reason for not using fake boxes for new games, instead of gutting one copy.
But I can tell you this author's reasoning is flawed. For one, GameStop receives high quality promotional box art for brand new games all the time. GameStop uses that box art for promotional box displays all over the store.
There have been times when GameStop even uses this boxart as an actual 'we have it in stock' placeholder for a new game!
GameStop also orders thousands of blank game boxes to be used as display or for the use of used games all the time.
BoxArt and GameBoxes are items GameStop stores receive on a Daily Basis. If GameStop wanted, they could officially say, "dont guy new games. Just use promotional art."
Some stores do, indeed, do that.
Of course, all of this is just hair splitting and doesnt matter.
oh well.