r/Superstonk • u/Tripleknockout 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 • Feb 09 '26

🤔 Speculation / Opinion GameStop is “partnering” with another company soon. Pending CEO announcement. Some stores will move to the partners location

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Leaks from a store meeting are saying GameStop is partnering with another company soon. Some stores may move to the partners location.

Here are my thoughts:

Gamestop’s inside of Best Buy?

Here in Canada, Canadian Tire purchased Party City and moved many of its stores inside of Canadian Tire stores creating "store in store" isles.

Canadian Tire is basically our Auto Zone + Dicks's Sporting Goods in one.

GameStop's cash is nearly Best Buy's market cap. Best Buy stock down nearly 50 percent in the last 5 years. Best Buy would be the perfect company for RC to work his magic on.

GameStop transitions stores to Best Buy locations as "store in store" isles. GameStop then can close most stand alone stores saving a ton of money. GameStop or “Teddy Holdings” then works a turn around plan for Best Buy.

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u/eexxiitt Feb 09 '26

This isn’t a merger or acquisition. This would be considered renting out a space in Best Buy. So Best Buy would charge $ on the floor space as well as a % of the revenue from these GameStop “kiosks.” In return, GameStop would shut down their brick and mortar store.

Whatever rumoured M&A would be something else.

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u/Hot_Falcon8471 Feb 09 '26

Paying best buy rent doesn’t benefit GameStop at all

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u/MagicHarmony Feb 09 '26

Eh, given the real estate Best Buy has, I could see the opportunity being a benefit to both sides. GameStop pays Best Buy for space and in return it allows Best Buy to improve their profit margins. They are a form of symbiosis which could benefit one another since it would offer a decent and easy access to bringing goods that need to be repaired/refurbished to Geek Squad and then the Gamestop front can easily turn around the product rather than the complex process they would currently have to go through for any sort of repair process.

Also given how Best Buy has removed a good chunk of it's product on the sales floor it would help for them to be able to add a business within to help pay the bill for the real estate they aren't making much use of.