Nice going GameStop. No how bout spreading some of that $8.8 billion love down to the frontline (i.e. - Store Managers, Assistant Managers and Game Advisers). I'm sure they would appreciate that as opposed to Starbuckserizing yourselves with GameStop on every corner of every block. These are hard times with boasting numbers like these and not giving back to the one poeple who had a direct hand in your prosperity is not a good look. You best remember what goes around comes around.

I would like to echo Sean's comments. Electronic gaming is a somewhat expensive hobby as well as profession, and anyone working in the industry needs decent income in order to stay current and be as helpful to customers as possible. As someone who has worked in the industry in a couple of capacities as well as knowing others who have worked in various aspects of retail, it's important that successful, profitable companies change their past methodologies in order to offer frontline workers compensation that allows them to be independent and self-supporting. This encourages loyalty, increases performance, and decreases turnover. It also helps any company's public image; retail companies, including GameStop, do not have a very good public image when it comes to career considerations of most individuals. It makes you look pretty bad when you're showing good growth and profits but people working in your stores are starving or cannot take care of themselves without parental support, roommates, etc. Most adults don't have such options, so forcing people into such situations also limits your pool of potential company personnel.

Thanks for the back up.

If game developers want to reduce gamestops prophets take make games cheap so their resale value isn't any good - i.e. reselling a game for $10 for a $20 game isn't a lot. of money.

Publishers and developers have yet to understand, that if they want to kill the used game market they have to make their games affordable and reduce their resale value.

Correction prophets = profits :) No editing certainly does suck.

When you say that you need decent income in order to stay current, you do know that you can check out games at Gamestop for free, right? So, there is actually no need for any income whatsoever if you are an employee. Furthermore, the wages are decent -- certainly on par with other comparable specialty-retailers. And, for most, far more enjoyable than working at a job where you have no interest in the product. Stop your whining. If you don't like working there go get a job somewhere else. But I caution you: that job might not exist a year from now if the company ends up going out of business with the economy the way it is now...

Yeh, I did know that. But, let ask you. Does checking out games for free pay the bills? Does checking out games for free put food on the table? Does checking out games for free put new clothes on on your back? Every job has some type of perk but in this current economy, for a company like GS to be BOASTING revenues like this when their frontline is making peanuts even though they are directly responsible for generating those revenues is lunacy at best.

You stated that GS employees wages are decent when compared to other specialty retailers. It that is true then there are alot of underpaid poeple in this crazy world we live in. Now I can't speak on other retail workers except maybe for Macy's, but maybe my original statement should extend to all retailers.