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Voting is now open for Best Brick & Mortar Retailer.
This award goes to the best overall B&M (physical store) video game retailer in 2006.


Best Buy
Circuit City
GameStop / EB Games
GameCrazy
Toys R Us

Unfortunately this is probably gonna be the last year this category is even worth having with Gamestop buying everyone up.

I'm nominating Gamecrazy. While their employees are weird as hell and have acted exactly as that training video instructed them to (apparently, everyone there thinks I have "new-itis"), they are useful. Their special order policy got me a new copy of DDS Deluxe for $20 back last February and whenever there's a game that most stores fail to get upon release (including Gamestop), Gamecrazy usually gets it (an example would be Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 on the Xbox.)

I Nominate EB Games, without them I wouldn't have a Wii and a 360.

Best Buy for the GGC

Rhino for their decent trade in deals, lifetime guarantees and their general non-douchebaggedness.

Circuit City. I always found myself using their ads and PM'ing at BB so I can build up my reward zone points.

GameCrazy, followed by Circuit City.

Going to have to say Gamestop. Not happy with it but they have the best selection of used stuff.

I'm going K-Mart. It's because of their shitty service and lack of customers that I got almost all of my games this year. Thanks K-Mart.

And I'm not kidding.

Circuit City (no I don't work for them.... the work for me!)

Gamestop definately although if they have already been nominated I say Wal-mart, there bargin bins have some really cool stuff in them sometimes.

I'll nominate Toys R' Us. Thier clearances are few and far between but they are always really good.

My local EB. Not the chain, but just that one store.

Circuit City. While Best Buy may have more games, their customer service can suck my balls.

I have to give my nod to Targét - clearance, and for the most part, a very fair console launch policy, not to mention the 38.88 sale the last week of the year for GOW, and several other high profile next gen games.

EB Games. Good selection of rare used games, good deals for credit, friendly staff. Free preorder stuff for games you don't preorder. Good times.

Circuit City, followed by Gamestop

TRU easily... I've had such good experiences with them not due to their employees, but their damn selection. Second is BB for their random deals and GGC.

CC, mainly because I can find their clearance games.

TRU a close second for the same reason.