{"id":7269,"date":"2009-11-12T16:32:06","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T00:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7269"},"modified":"2015-05-28T22:21:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T05:21:56","slug":"gamestop-in-store-digital-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/gamestop-in-store-digital-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"GameStop In-Store Digital Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9017 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/gamestop-black-S-e1432876793192.jpg\" alt=\"gamestop black-S\" width=\"400\" height=\"117\" \/>NOV. 12, 2009 \u2022 GameStop will start testing a novel variation on micro-transactions starting in 2010. The concept is to combine in-store customer service with digital ordering. If a consumer learns of a game upgrade while visiting a store, they can order the item before leaving and have the download available when they return home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: A retailer like GameStop faces a huge issue with the growth of digital distribution threatening their brick and mortar business.\u00a0 However, GameStop is also a great place for consumers to make impulse purchases so they could still have an opportunity to play in a world of digital distribution.\u00a0 However, in the long term there is a major question of whether game specialty retailers will go the way of music specialty retailers.\u00a0 There is nothing to prevent stores like 7-11 from offering a similar option if the concept starts to take-off.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOV. 12, 2009 \u2022 GameStop will start testing a novel variation on micro-transactions starting in 2010. The concept is to combine in-store customer service with digital ordering. If a consumer learns of a game upgrade while visiting a store, they can order the item before leaving and have the download available when they return home. [&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\/7269"}],"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=7269"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14206,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions\/14206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}