Yuck: Video Game Consoles Stored in GameStop Bathroom

I used to work at a Gamestop and I can tell you this was a common practice in every district I've been to.

who gives a crap? my whole body is in a bathroom several hours a day. chill out ppl.

I worked for a few month the summer of 08 in a KB Toys in A Mall in Waterbury CT. While it was not practice to store toys or game units in the bathroom, the backroom (stockroom), was filled with mice and rats. Traps needed to be set, there were droppings everywhere. Also the room leaked and water pooled in the stockroom and warped cieling tiles which eventually fell in to the selling floor of the store. malls are disgusting, people leave gargbage from the food court on the shelves. KB did not really care about the leaks, district management ignored my calls on at least one occasion and I was the "so called" assistant manager. Walmart and target will soon put the last nails in the KB coffin anywho.

.... you do see the boxes that the consols have around them don't you?

I think that's disgusting. If i had bought one o those systems, got sick, and read this article GAME STOP would be some trouble.

As disgusting as this is. It is reality and a reminder that, "we never know where it's been" I never wear new clothing until it has been laundered or dry cleaned. I wipe all boxes and can goods prior to placing them in the pantry, I remove item's such as potato's from the original bag immediately. The grocery stores and fast food restraunts have to be in the top 5 dirtiest places I have been in. I can feel the germs! (yuck).
Just because it's new doesn't mean it's clean!

Too many stores are built with very little storage. In the old days the stockroom was almost half the size of the store. Developers cram as much in a lot as they can, to make their money. They don't have to deal with the lack of space later.

I also used to work at a GameStop store in Atlanta, Georgia. Sometimes, bathrooms are the only places in the stores that can be locked, especially mall stores. One of the stores I helped out at, (a mall store), they kept all the systems in the bathroom. It seemed odd at the time, but when I stepped in back to take a breather (3 days before Christmas, and it was packed), I saw a lady wandering around our backroom, looking for a bathroom for her son. (Why she couldn't go up to the escalator to the food court bathroom is beyond me). If she could get in there unnoticed, what's keeping a shoplifter from doing the same? I'd prefer to have the systems locked up in a bathroom, then out in the open.

Having worked in retail many years it is common practice to store many things in the bathrooms. Usualy due to theft issues no merchandise was kept in the bathroom. What is very common to store in bathrooms are the shopping bags and plastic bags we put your purchase in. Also display props, hangers, gift boxes. Back room areas are made extremly small and there are always more supplies then the space to store them. During holiday time the amount of bags and boxes a retail store receives can take up half you stock area. It leaves you no choice but to use every available inch of space you have. Now I'm not saying it's right but the stores hands are tied when corporate refuses to spend the money to increase backroom space or get an off site unit to hold the overflow of boxes.

OH NO my washer and dryer are in my bathroom! So are my hair brushes and OMG my toothbrush..Oh wait I'm still here without any major issues..I think I'll live. Besides it's not like you are going to lick the games when you get them.
I thought it was about people stealing them lol

you got to store them some where. some of those places have no store room space to begin with.

steve moscatello @ Sep 30th 2008 10:11AM
Arent they in boxes? id be more worried about the chinky germs from the people who made them


What do you mean by that statement?

You know, this happens more than you think. I was hired to work in a tea house kitchen. When they asked me to go get an onion, they directed me to go into the single person public bathroom, where there was another door (closet). I had to use a table knife, because they lost the key.... anyway, one time through the bathroom to retrieve an onion, and I quit. I also can't eat there anymore.....

I don't really care where the stuff is stored so long as it isn't used before I buy it. If the bathroom is the only place to store excess, fine. Just keep the area clean. If possible, direct customers to an alternate bathroom.