Fry's Electronics is closing all stores

Post by shawn-furyan » Sun, Feb 28, 2021, 2:10 AM UTC

michaelcampbell wrote: post #222

shawn-furyan wrote: post #186

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As a possibly former employee (who among us can recall every place they've worked in the past?) who may not have looked at any number of prior employment agreements in an awfully long time, and completely apropos of nothing, I just want to note that endemic is such a good and relevant vocabulary word for current events. I mean, there's the global pandemic, and other things people are talking about, all kinds of uses!…

> who among us can recall every place they've worked in the past? I'm in my mid/late 50's, and I can. Even one gig I had for 3 1/2 hours. Not bragging here, but I suspect MOST people can remember all their jobs. Am I wrong?

Post by thewileyone » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:21 AM UTC

mc32 wrote: post #7

BuyMyBitcoins wrote: post #3

I’m not surprised, but this makes me feel incredibly sad. I built my first PC using parts from there. I’m going to miss it. But once Fry’s pivoted to be a consignment store that was mostly empty and selling pallets of bottled water and perfume, it was obvious the business was about to die. Curiously, Microcenter has managed to live on and seems fairly robust. I can’t help but think Fry’s tried to sell too many differ…

Central Computer is still kicking around -for now. This is all changing. It's not the same. You used to have a bunch of grey market PC parts distributors all over the east bay (uProcessor, add on Cards, RAM, HDD, etc) that used to sell to beige box PC makers (and individuals) but they went the way of the dodo too (ASI is legit distributor now). Also, remember WeirdStuff? Gone too. It's a mature industry and the biz h…

Post by thewileyone » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:31 AM UTC

watertom wrote: post #233

tasty_freeze wrote: post #118

I graduated college in 1985 and moved cross country to Sunnyvale for work. Fry's was a supermarket chain, and at the time there was one and only one location that was trying out carrying computer stuff, on the east side of Lawrence Ave I think, before they moved to the west side of Lawrence. They weren't yet fully committed to it. Half the store was produce and such -- milk, eggs, lettuce, etc, and the other half was…

Wow, Computer Literacy I completely forgot about them. As an east coast geek they they were like a unicorn. When I joined Sun Microsystems in 1990, and I went to orientation training in Mt. View it was like visiting heaven when I got to walk in the door of Computer Literacy. I also bought a few books from them via email, ah, the beginnings of eCommerce. Jeez I'm old.