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Fry's Electronics Going Out of Business?
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andy3055:
Close to the bay, the only place I can thin of now is Al Lasher's Electronics. Even that is not very convenient as it is only one location. At least you can get all sorts of parts from them and they will order for you if needed. I believe it is a family business.

http://allashers.com/about/
boffin:
G.G.G.Gone. Looks like they closed everything up overnight.


https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/24/business/frys-electronics-closure/index.html

andy3055:
Yup, we can blame the lack of today's youth not being interested in the hobby and most importantly the junk available for pennies on eBay and Amazon! Only our generation will be losing and complaining for the next few years.
boffin:

--- Quote from: andy3055 on February 24, 2021, 06:18:25 pm ---Yup, we can blame the lack of today's youth not being interested in the hobby and most importantly the junk available for pennies on eBay and Amazon! Only our generation will be losing and complaining for the next few years.

--- End quote ---

The bigger difference I think is that so many things are essentially unrepairable these days, that stops people from being interested in the 1st place.
raptor1956:
Between jobs in the semiconductor industry I worked a few months at a Fry's in Las Vegas -- selling cameras.  The management style was, by my observation, modeled on the Wal*Mart approach but with the obvious different in the range of products sold.

I'm less sold on the idea that it's demise was do to the younger generation being far less interested in electronics, that may be the case but I don't think it's necessary to explain them going out of business.  Even when I worked there back in early 2006 there were signs of economic problems and from my vantage point this day was inevitable.  Amazon, Ebay and the Chinese direct retailers are no doubt the biggest reason and when you put it all together this day was bound to happen sooner or later.

So, for me the biggest reason is competition from internet retailers but the other factors mentioned by others probably played a role as well.  Still, a sad day!


Brian
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