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Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank

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Re: Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank

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Post by ghaff »

jhbadger wrote: post #109
ghaff wrote: post #92

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The articles in Computer Shopper were pretty much fairly low effort filler. Not that there weren’t tons of ads in things like PC Magazine but the articles/columns/reviews were of pretty good quality for the most part.

While the point of the articles was to keep it legally qualified as a "magazine" rather than a "catalog" (as postal rates then favored the former over the latter), there were some good things there. Don Lancaster wrote some amazing articles about Postscript and how you can write Postscript code to make figures rather than using a drawing program. And Stan Veit, who was editor of Computer Shopper for a time, wrote som…

Fair. I had forgotten about Don Lancaster, probably because that was never an area of particular interest. Mostly only bought Computer Shopper if I were building a PC or something like that.

Re: Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank

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jallmann wrote: post #52
ack_complete wrote: post #47

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Given the kinds of returns that Fry's would accept, I wouldn't be surprised if those were returns they had accepted that way. The one near me would attempt to resell laptop power bricks that had been returned with no AC power cord, and one time I got "new" RAM sticks that turned out to be actually used and so busted that a quarter of the data bus lines were inoperative.

I remember buying a Radeon at Fry's (Fountain Valley, Roman Empire), going home, opening it up and... it was something else, a cheap VGA card. They gave me a hard time about taking it back too, 16-year old me didn't know how to cut through the BS so my dad had to go back with me on a 3rd trip and get it sorted out. What a place.

That happened to me at a CompUSA, opened up box for what was supposed to be wireless keyboard and found newspapers instead. It helped that I had just been there with my dad 5 minutes ago and the newspapers were from a town 40 miles away.

They have to be suspicious because customer fraud is as much of a problem as employee fraud, but it still sucks to be accused as the victim.

Re: Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank

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Post by mixmastamyk »

jedberg wrote: post #82
mixmastamyk wrote: post #33

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Similar... spent hours and hours at the one in Canoga Park during the 90s. (Sometimes DAK too.) Believe it had an "alice in wonderland" theme. Can't even remember what I bought but even perused the magazine section while there. Oh wait, I do remember buying a 20? foot long (several meter) orange crossover ethernet cable! Then I punched a hole thru the drywall in my apartment and connected my two PCs. One of which had…

Canoga Park was indeed Alice in Wonderland themed. That was my Fry's too. When the closed down they actioned off all of the Alice themed items inside. I came this close to buying a 15ft tall Queen of Hearts.

Ha, always thought you were from up north.

Re: Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank

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Post by jedberg »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #113
jedberg wrote: post #82

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Canoga Park was indeed Alice in Wonderland themed. That was my Fry's too. When the closed down they actioned off all of the Alice themed items inside. I came this close to buying a 15ft tall Queen of Hearts.

Ha, always thought you were from up north.

Grew up in LA, came to Berkeley for college at 18, have been in the bay ever since!
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