{"id":219621,"date":"2026-01-06T12:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/219621\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T12:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:37:07","slug":"eb-games-proposes-closing-all-its-new-zealand-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/219621\/","title":{"rendered":"EB Games proposes closing all its New Zealand stores"},"content":{"rendered":"

EB Games is an Australian-based video game and pop culture merchandise retailer, owned by GameStop since 2005.<\/p>\n

There are now 38 stores in New Zealand, according to GameStop\u2019s latest annual report, and 336 in Australia.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s uncertain how many jobs would be lost if the proposal goes through and EB Games closes all its New Zealand stores.<\/p>\n

The chain has been facing stress for some time, including closures of stores in both Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of last year, the company proposed to eliminate all its New Zealand administrative staff, the Post reported.<\/p>\n

Stockwell described the New Zealand business as no longer commercially viable, with a \u201cmultimillion-dollar loss during the 2024 fiscal year\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said the retail market continues to be sluggish and the company was not confident its performance would improve.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are saddened to be in this position, having already made significant and repeated efforts to turn the business around,\u201d Stockwell wrote.<\/p>\n

The company said that there might be opportunities for New Zealand employees to relocate and take up work in the Australian EB Games operations.<\/p>\n

Employees have been asked to submit feedback on the closure proposal by January 12.<\/p>\n

\u2013 RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EB Games is an Australian-based video game and pop culture merchandise retailer, owned by GameStop since 2005. There…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5263,6789,132389,6489,42,302,117,43,1642,3587,653,40,38,41,39,80],"class_list":["post-219621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-all","tag-closing","tag-eb","tag-games","tag-headlines","tag-its","tag-new","tag-news","tag-online","tag-proposes","tag-stores","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}