Our equivalent of Gamestop here in NZ is EB games, which I think is owned by GS... I don't shop there purely out of economics, they are more expensive than anyone else out there, even the general electronic goods stores. I know some of the people who work there and they are pretty chill people, but you can feel the corporate under currents.
Then you run into the "Manager" who drinks the cool aid and **** does it get nasty. At the local Eb it's some Indian dude who saids he went to business school, whether it's true or not, it didn't matter, when I brought up the question of Ethics, he said it was irrelevant. I questioned him about some of the dodgy stuff like having Mario Kart DS sitting inside Recent Releases(At this point it had been out for years), he replied it didn't matter since they defined what recent meant. Given how amoral a bloody shift manager can be, I can only imagine what lengths corporate would do for a quick buck if given an inch.
I try not to not look poorly on the counter jockeys, but they are on the frontlines and will always be hit first. There is a problem with the job if you can't take some level of pride in.