{"id":4429,"date":"2008-04-10T09:47:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T16:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=4429"},"modified":"2013-03-11T19:39:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T02:39:36","slug":"gamer-doc-looks-to-expand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/gamer-doc-looks-to-expand\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamer Doc Looks to Expand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5970\" alt=\"gamer_doc-S2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gamer_doc-S2.jpg\" width=\"405\" height=\"290\" \/>APRIL 10, 2008 \u2022 Gamer Doc, a new U.S. video game retailer, took its message to potential franchisees in the hopes of opening up to 20 locations during 2008. The 800- to 1,200-square foot stores feature an atypical design intended to immerse consumers into a popular game via wall murals, game scenes rather than merchandising stock in the front of the stores.\u00a0 the areas will also include up to a dozen plasma high-definition game stations to encourage testing titles and hosting competitions. Former Godfather&#8217;s Pizza chief operating officer David Huether is Gamer Doc&#8217;s chairman.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: There&#8217;s evidence that gamers are none too thrilled with buying their games at GameStop, Best Buy or any of the mass-market retailers. Variations on availability, selection and price are what keeps people shopping at most of these stores. That&#8217;s why there is a cottage industry growing seeking to give gamers a buying environment they enjoy as a way of siphoning market share.\u00a0 Play N Trade is a recent example in that direction. Gamer Doc goes a step further by taking the franchise concept into the realm of theme park. Whether that concept draws as many sales as foot traffic remains to be seen.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APRIL 10, 2008 \u2022 Gamer Doc, a new U.S. video game retailer, took its message to potential franchisees in the hopes of opening up to 20 locations during 2008. The 800- to 1,200-square foot stores feature an atypical design intended to immerse consumers into a popular game via wall murals, game scenes rather than merchandising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4429"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5967,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions\/5967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}