Thieves have entered GameStop posing as normal customers, what happens next is truly incredible: in addition to the damage, even the insult.
We know very well how stealing they are PlayStation 5 since Sony announced and put it on the market: due to the component crisis and the reduction of work due to the Covid-19 pandemic that has slowed down any market and any sector of work, it is still not easy to find PS5 even today inside specialized shops and for this reason there are those who would even do false papers to have it by now.
Due to this enormous crisis which has hit, as mentioned, the production of PS5 has also suffered heavy slowdowns which still have consequences today. Most shops and specialist retailers, even online, prefer to sell the console in bundle with unpublished video games or with accessories to try to earn that extra hundred euros on the cost of the PlayStation; unfortunately there are also those in the world who take advantage of it and perhaps only sell the console at a higher price, but now we are talking about a different story that underlines how far PS5 is going literally snapped up.
GameStop is still the protagonist, but this time it is the victim
The protagonist of this news, despite himself, is once again the video game store GameStop, perhaps the most famous gaming chain of all time. Although usually the company is at the center of storms and controversies due to its policies that are not always in line with the requests and wishes of the public, this time the situation was reversed and it was one of the chain’s stores that was hit full of customers, or rather, by those who initially seemed to be simple customers, but turned out to be anything but.
It happened in the United States, precisely in Easton, Pennsylvania, where men entered a GameStop store pretending to be simple customers, but in the end they turned out to be nothing more than armed robbers who had only one intention: that Of steal PlayStation 5s worth around $5,000! Apparently it is really true that these consoles are literally snapped up, or simply these bad guys intend to sell them at a higher price in an illegal way.
We may never know the motive, but the strangest and most unthinkable situation in this whole story is the GameStop reaction to theft: you won’t believe your eyes.
Adding insult to injury: GameStop’s reaction is incredible
According to the reconstruction of the surveillance cameras, the thieves apparently forced the shopkeeper to open the warehouse where a large quantity of PS5s were kept which were stolen and stolen, before leaving then the GameStop clerk was locked inside the warehouse. After the crime was committed and the complaint against the criminals started, the company took matters into its own hands in a rather surprising way that left everyone speechless.
According to what was reported by some former employees and also by the company itself a few hours after the theft, the lead manager of the store he was even fired outright by GameStopfor no apparent reason. In fact, the person in question was not even present at the time of the theft and therefore it is not yet clear why the company fired him for something it could not avoid.
Whether it’s for company policies or staff cuts, we don’t know personally, but it’s probably the first time in history that something like this has happened!
