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one by one they all fall. Bezos is correct to pick e-commerce and build his empire on top of it. lets see if BestBuy and Micro center can hold out.
I went there about 2 years ago. It was a graveyard. I just wanted a USB extension cable, and they only had one, and active extension cable that must have been languishing on the shelf for 10 years. What I don't understand is how best buy has survived and Frys (I think a much better store) did not survive.
There was a lot of stuff going on in the corp level that really caused a lot of the problems with supply of goods. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Former-Fry-s-executiv...
I went there about 2 years ago. It was a graveyard. I just wanted a USB extension cable, and they only had one, and active extension cable that must have been languishing on the shelf for 10 years. What I don't understand is how best buy has survived and Frys (I think a much better store) did not survive.
Best Buy created a high margin stream in repairs and warrantys, while cutting down on low volume goods and basically becoming a showroom for large brands. Companies pay them to display their wares prominently. So if you’re looking for some minor obscure dongle, the stereotype is that if you go Fry’s, you’ll buy the dongle and a bag of candy. If you go to Best Buy you’ll end up buying a TV instead.
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The only time I've ever been into a Fry's (due to not living near one) was around 2010 in the Sacramento CA area. It was so huge that I genuinely got dizzy and had to work hard to focus to see individual items (It's a thing that happens to me when there is a lot of "input" for lack of a better term). I suspect that the cavernous real estate (and its cost) only hastened their demise.
Hey, I have the same issue. I get dizzy inside malls too
I remember going to Fry's for the first time in the late 90s. Having grown up on the East Coast, I had only heard about this magical place where you could buy pretty much anything computer-related. It was truly an experience, especially when compared with from CompUSA and Best Buy. When I moved to the Bay Area, I did enjoy going to Fry's and walking around ogling the hardware. Over time, I switched pretty much to buy…
In the Bay Area do people often bring dogs into retail stores?
He weighed about 150 lbs and was meek as a lamb and people rarely objected.
Are there even any good stores left in the bay area for small electronics? Best Buy usually only stocks popular items and even then a lot of the smaller items are vastly overpriced. ($20-40 for basic cables really?)
And then I’d find something else that would help inspire a fun personal project. There was so much geekiness there that inspired me to experiment a lot and learn.
Is this all of frys or just the electronics stores? Those have been whithering away for a long time but the last time I went to a fry’s grocery store it was running as normal.