Yeah, it's sad at this point. I've probably been a customer longer than most- mainly because I've largely been relatively un-sentimental about consoles/collections- I buy consoles/games, trade them when I'm done to subsidize the next purchase. I used to be a pretty prolific preorder-er with them but just kind of figure what's the point when I can pre-download and start playing a new release at midnight if I want (why wait to pick up after work the next day, which was my norm).
However, digital has gotten more and more business from me (and I have more disposable income as I get older), so I pretty much hardly bothered at all with GameStop in 2022.
I actually wandered into a store this past January, looking to grab Dead space (which released a few days earlier) since someone gave me a gift card there. The store was such a sad looking space, and upon asking for the game, and predictably being asked if I pre-ordered, he said none are in stock and that they basically only get exact stock to fulfill pre-orders any more at launch. (I have historically never had trouble buying major AAA releases from the store without preorder. I would expect this for a lot of the niche Japanese stuff I often buy, but a AAA EA published game... nah.)
So, I bought some Xbox Store credit with my card, went home and downloaded Dead Space from the Xbox store. It's like they are trying to die...
