EB Games

The Shadow loves video games, true-​believers. Especially since my crime-​fighting career spans so many decades and is the stuff of legend.
That being said, no male likes shopping for video games only to leave feeling like a soggy condom, after the experience.
I’ve shopped at this EB Games location, inside Aurora Town Center Mall, in Aurora, Colorado, a Simon-​owned mall, numerous times.
Each time, the pimply-​faced pre-​pubescent punk behind the counter never acknowledged my presence in the store-​regardless of whether I was there for a few minutes or longer, or whether I picked something up or not. I could have hoisted several video games undetected had I so chosen. I could have fallen onto the store’s concrete floor into a dying heap, had I been overcome with cardiac arrest, or defecated a pound of steaming dross material had I been so inclined –and the young teen behind the counter would not have stopped playing tiddlywinks with his Blackberry or iPhone thing while tugging on a random piercing.
I know we live in a day and age where customer service means not vomiting up on the the customer while they’re at the register checking out, but it’s tough to be enthusiastic about a shopping experience when the store manager/​custodian/​check-​out person can’t be bothered to acknowledge your existence while busily typing away on an iPhone or whatever, while chewing away at a McDarnold’s toad-​burger at the same time.
Also, for whatever reason, everything at this location is close to double whatever it sells for at other less «urban» locations, if you catch my drift. I’ve subsequently shopped at other EB/​Game Stop locations and found locations elsewhere with less diverse populations to be less expensive. So caveat emptor!