Digital downloads killed 150 GameStop stores

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It's game over for at least 150 GameStop stores. The retailer has announced that it's shutting down 2 to 3 percent of 7,500 shops across the globe after sales and earning plummeted last year. According to
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, the company was affected by the shift to
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. More and more people now prefer installing their games straight from their console's online store instead of buying physical copies, that GameStop's sales dropped 14 percent in 2016. It did especially bad this past
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when its sales
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19 percent. As a result, its fourth-quarter profits fell 16 percent and its shares went down by about 12 percent, as well.

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