{"id":395516,"date":"2026-01-06T15:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/395516\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:10:09","slug":"eb-games-is-likely-closing-all-stores-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/395516\/","title":{"rendered":"EB Games Is Likely Closing All Stores In New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-intro-line\">Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you.<\/p>\n<p>EB Games has today announced that it will likely be closing all New Zealand Stores and its distribution centre.<\/p>\n<p>EB Games currently has 38 stores in New Zealand and it has deemed that the New Zealand business is no longer viable.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage it is just a proposal and EB Games has entered into a full consultation process with all of the affected New Zealand team members. At the time of writing, Australian stores and the larger Australian business isn\u2019t impacted at a wide level.<\/p>\n<p>The statement sent to all New Zealand and Australian staff reads:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegrettably, we are writing to advise you that we have commenced consultation with our New Zealand employees today, regarding a proposal to close the EB Games New Zealand business, including all stores and the distribution centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While the Australian business has had significant success and is not impacted, unfortunately we no longer believe the New Zealand business is viable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This proposal is not final, and no decision will be made until we have completed a full consultation process in good faith with all affected NZ team members, who we are supporting through this process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We will provide a further update when we are able to at the conclusion of consultation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,211116],"class_list":["post-395516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-eb-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}