PALMER TWP., Pa. – A global retailer’s brick-and-mortar footprint continues to dwindle in the region.
A location of GameStop, a retail chain where customers can buy and sell video games, video games consoles, collectibles and more, closed last week at 3087 William Penn Highway in Palmer Township, Northampton County.
The store operated in the William Penn Plaza.
A GameStop spokesperson did not return a message seeking more information, including a reason for the closure.
The Palmer store’s closure comes amid a massive cutback in GameStop’s brick-and-mortar footprint nationwide this month.
The company’s website lists hundreds of stores as closed, and multiple news outlets, including FOXBusiness, New York Post and Cleveland-based WKYC, estimate the closures are impacting more than 470 locations.
Other regional GameStop stores that have closed over the past month include those at 210 N. West End Blvd. in Richland Township, Bucks County; 4611 Perkiomen Ave. in Exeter Township, Berks County; 1241 Blakeslee Blvd. Drive East Suite 7 in Mahoning Township, Carbon County; 892 W. Street Road in Warminster Township, Bucks County; and 1165 State Hill Road Suite 770 in Wyomissing, Berks County.
GameStop offers a wide array of new and pre-owned graded trading cards such as Pokemon and Yu-gi-oh!; video games such as Madden NFL 25 and Super Mario Party Jamboree; and video game consoles including Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch consoles
Customers also can shop virtual reality hardware and collectibles such as Star Wars, Superman and Transformers action figures.
GameStop’s brick-and-mortar footprint has continued to decrease over the years.
In February 2025, GameStop offered games and entertainment products in more 3,200 stores worldwide, with more than 2,300 of those stores operating in the United States, according to a United States Securities and Exchange Commission filing from March 2025.
These totals were down from the more than 4,100 global stores and more than 2,900 U.S. stores that operated in February 2024.
In the same March 2025 filing, the Grapevine, Texas-based company said that it anticipates closing a “significant number” of additional locations in the coming months.
GameStop, which had more than 6,600 stores operating in 2015, on Dec. 9, released financial results for its third quarter 2025, which ended Nov. 1.
Net sales were $821 million for the period, compared to $860.3 million in the prior year’s third quarter.
Also, selling, general and administrative expenses were $221.4 million for the period, compared to $282 million in the prior year’s third quarter, and operating income was $41.3 million for the period, compared to an operating loss of $33.4 million in the prior year’s third quarter.
A GameStop store previously operated at the Bethlehem Square shopping center on Linden Street in Bethlehem Township.
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In recent years, other Lehigh Valley GameStop stores closed in the Bethlehem Square on Linden Street in Bethlehem Township and Crest Plaza on North Cedar Crest Boulevard in South Whitehall Township.
Lehigh Valley GameStop stores continue to operate on Airport Center Drive in Hanover Township, Nazareth Road in Lower Nazareth Township, MacArthur Road in Whitehall Township, Mill Creek Road in Lower Macungie Township and at the Lehigh Valley Mall in Whitehall.