GameStop will close all of its U.S. retail stores starting Sunday and move exclusively to online sales in response to the coronavirus threat.

The Grapevine-based video game retailer said it will continue to process orders placed at GameStop.com, offering customers either curbside pick-up or delivery. Some of its locations already had closed to comply with varying local and state orders shutting down retail businesses.

The company also said it will pay employees whose hours are being eliminated for the next two weeks and provide benefits for a month. It has thousands of part-time hourly employees worldwide.

“This is an unprecedented time and each day brings new information about the COVID-19 pandemic," said CEO George Sherman in a statement. “We have been steadfast in our adherence to CDC-guided safety and local government orders for retailers in each of our communities.”

Sherman said GameStop is seeing increased demand for its products as Americans spend more time at home to slow community spread of the virus. Through Nov. 2, when the company last reported financial results, its 2019 sales totaled $4.2 billion -- down nearly $1 billion from the same period a year earlier.

It reports full year results March 26.

GameStop, which operates over 5,500 stores in 14 countries, didn’t put a time frame on how long its U.S. stores will remain closed.