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| rsjsouza:
It is too bad. I liked their stores before their "consignment" business model. One more for the bag of uncle Bezos and Co. :-- |
| boffin:
--- Quote from: raptor1956 on February 24, 2021, 08:57:33 pm ---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. --- End quote --- I purchased my Rigol 1054Z at that store. Hit a $1000 on a slot downtown, and was headed to Mandalay to meet up with friends for dinner (Charlie Palmer's) that night, so popped into Fry's 1st to spend my winnings. First and only time I've checked an oscilloscope in a restaurant. |
| metrologist:
Sad. I had friends that used to worked there. |
| mansaxel:
--- Quote from: raptor1956 on February 24, 2021, 08:57:33 pm ---Between jobs in the semiconductor industry I worked a few months at a Fry's in Las Vegas -- selling cameras. --- End quote --- I went to that one last time I was in Vegas, for NAB Convention 2019. (Wonder when I'll go there for NAB again; the 2020 trip was ordered and booked and I just about managed to get out of the plane tickets and car rental when the cancel plug was pulled.) I still have and daily use the USB-C to SD and standard USB dongle I bought there. Yeah, kinda sad. But my observation from two visits, 2003 Palo Alto and 2019 LV, is that there was noticeable decline and this was inevitable. |
| james_s:
It's sad to see them go, but it was inevitable, I haven't actually gone into the one nearest to me in years. Fact is they just don't have much that I can't order online, and by the time I take the time and fuel to make the trip I'm not saving anything over paying for shipping. It's too bad they didn't try something a little different. They could have put more focus on selling online, while at the same time leveraging their physical stores to host hacker spaces, mini maker faire type events, and they could have stocked all the stuff like Raspberry Pi, Arduino, some of the various subsidized uC and FPGA dev boards, etc. Amazon has been successful in selling all those same widgets you can buy direct from China, people will pay the markup to not have to wait for a month. It's too late now but I think they could have saved it if they had thought outside the box. Give people a reason to go hang out there, you can't mail order social interaction. Obviously Covid still would have thrown a wrench in things though. |
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