Get Your Coffee, Used Games at 7-Eleven
PrintMove over Gamestop and make room for...7-Eleven? As crazy as it sounds, your local convenience store will soon begin selling used games priced under $20.
It's part of a new promotion called "Great Games Under $20" in which 7-Eleven has partnered with Game Trading Technologies to outfit half of its stores -- about 3,000 total -- with used videogames.
"What this means to consumers is that they will have many convenient locations, most open 24/7, to buy value-priced videogames," said Game Trading Technologies president and CEO Todd Hays. "The program is available to all 7-Eleven US franchisees, and we hope to have most US stores on board by September."
This isn't the first time 7-Eleven has sold videogames. The convenience store chain tried its hand at selling new games starting in late 2008, but got off to a rocky start when it sold some titles -- like Wrath of the Lich King -- before their street date.
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Keith E. Whisman
April 20, 2010 at 11:14am
1 Big Gulp, 1 Awesome Brownie, 1 Awesome Bag of Chocolate Chip Cookies from the counter and 1 copy of Half Life 2 Orange Box thank you very much.
zaternine
April 20, 2010 at 10:35am
not surprised. I remember when i was a kid 7-11 used to rent movies and had 4 video arcade games i used play everyday after school.
Keith E. Whisman
April 20, 2010 at 11:17am
Too bad those games brought too many kids into the stores at one time. The kids would fight and shoplift. It wasn't worth the trouble having those machines in the stores any more. Notice how the convenience stores only allow 2kids in the store at one time and backpacks are usually not allowed in the stores at all anymore.
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