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Fry's Electronics Going Out of Business?
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rsjsouza:
The two stores I visit in Dallas area still have plenty of traffic, especially on the weekends. I usually take my girls there to look at toys, I look at the electronics and I usually see families browsing around their wide selection of white goods as well.

Obviously that traffic does not necessarily means sales in this internet era, but I hope they stay afloat.
Bassman59:
Funny, I flew into the Phoenix, Arizona airport yesterday afternoon and got in early enough so that I could have stopped at the Fry's in Tempe before heading home (further south). I didn't really need anything so I skipped it. I wonder if that store is affected?

The Tempe store used to be an Incredible Universe, which was a Tandy (Radio Shack) big-box retail store that went under because the costs of maintaining the giant stores were not tenable.
Sal Ammoniac:

--- Quote from: Bassman59 on September 23, 2019, 04:49:05 pm ---Funny, I flew into the Phoenix, Arizona airport yesterday afternoon and got in early enough so that I could have stopped at the Fry's in Tempe before heading home (further south). I didn't really need anything so I skipped it. I wonder if that store is affected?
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From what I've heard, all of their stores are affected.
RandallMcRee:
Just as a point of trivia--the egyptian theme of the san jose/campbell Fry's is probably due to its location near the Rosicrucian museum.

https://egyptianmuseum.org/

The Rosicrucians are....interesting.
raptor1956:
I did a short stint between real jobs at Fry's in Vegas, this was late 2005 into early 2006, they operated much like Wal*Mart in the way they treated the associates and what they expected of them.  Pay was dreadful but I guess that's the case with pretty much all retail and more so with Amazon nipping at there heals.

Not surprised they are finally going under and I can only wonder what held them up these last few years.  With them and Radio Shack gone the only place for electronics is the internet or the major electrical suppliers like Digikey but you pretty much order on the internet anyway so...


Brian
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