Knowledgeable trade sources report that Arkansas-based Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, intends to decrease the number of coin-operated amusement games its stores offer in entry vestibules. While not completely eliminating the game category, stores will reconfigure the areas to stress three or four top quality games over larger inventories of average machines.
The move comes as a way to "de-clutter and streamline" their stores, says these sources. Smaller stores may end up removing all the games. Several hundred stores with stand-alone arcades will reportedly retain the arcades, but their ultimate fate remains unclear. In addition to this unconfirmed rumor, sources also claim that Wal-Mart will consolidate contracted vendors into three national operation firms.
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