New York (CNN Business) Hundreds of GameStop stores around the United States remain open, despite the intensifying coronavirus outbreak and demands from irate employees to close the stores. GameStop told CNN Business in a statement that "we are one of many providers of these products that are remaining open at this time." Eight current employees told CNN Business that GameStop is keeping its stores open to profit off of a video game shopping spree during a global pandemic. PC game store Steam reported an all-time high of 21 million users on Friday. It told employees in a letter viewed by CNN Business that they should direct law enforcement to call a corporate number if they tried to enforce store closures.

Source: CNN March 20, 2020 20:12 UTC