{"id":232935,"date":"2026-01-14T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/232935\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:32:09","slug":"eb-games-to-close-all-new-zealand-stores-at-the-end-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/232935\/","title":{"rendered":"EB Games to close all New Zealand stores at the end of the month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EB Games is leaving New Zealand and will close all its stores at the end of January, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Inside Retail <a href=\"https:\/\/insideretail.co.nz\/2026\/01\/07\/eb-games-considers-closing-all-nz-stores\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported on Monday that<\/a> the retailer\u2019s MD, Shane Stockwell, had written to all local employees to inform them of plans to cease operations in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Radio NZ reports that another letter has been sent to employees confirming that all stores will be closed on January 31.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian-based company has 38 sites in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Inside Retail has previously asked EB Games to clarify how many jobs will be lost; it did not receive a response.<\/p>\n<p>EB Games is owned by GameStop, which recently unveiled a compensation package valued at roughly US$35 billion (NZ$60.7 billion) for CEO Ryan Cohen to turn around declining revenues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EB Games is leaving New Zealand and will close all its stores at the end of January, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[138208,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-232935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-eb-games","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232935","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=232935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}