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GameStop to shutter York fulfillment center, impacting 155 workers
Listen to this articleThe GameStop Pennsylvania Fulfillment Center, at 20 Leo Lane, Manchester Township, is closing this year, leaving 155 employees jobless.
According to the company’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act letter, submitted to the state Department of Labor & Industry, the entire facility will be closed and all employees there impacted.
The closure is expected to be permanent, with the first workers being laid off March 15, or within two weeks of that date, and the final layoffs coming no later than Sept. 30.
According to its website, Grapevine, Texas-based GameStop is the world’s largest retail gaming and trade-in destination for Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo games, systems, consoles and accessories.
GameStop has closed more than 1,000 stores in recent years as the trend has shifted to online purchases.
It was only about 2 1/2 years ago that GameStop, a Fortune 500 company, first announced it was leasing the 700,000-square-foot fulfillment center at 20 Leo Lane to further expand its North American fulfillment network.
The WARN letter didn’t explain why GameStop’s Manchester Township warehouse was closing, and calls and emails for comment were not immediately returned.
GameStop, which was once on the verge of bankruptcy, according to media reports, also closed a distribution center in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, in 2023.
The company has brought in Chewy founder and billionaire activist investor Ryan Cohen as CEO after previous chief executives were let go.
Paula Wolf is a freelance writer
