Part of the problem was that most Fry's stores were enormous. That was okay in the 1990s during Fry's heyday--the stores were jam-packed with customers on weekends and you'd wait in line twenty minutes to pay despite them having forty cash registers open. In recent years, customer traffic has fallen way off, but rather than downsizing and moving the stores to smaller locations to cut their real estate costs, they kept the large stores open and tried to fill them with other things to fill the empty space. For example, software used to occupy 3-4 full aisles in the stores. When retail sales of software moved to an on-line model, Fry's had to find something to fill those aisles. In many cases, they filled them with stuff like perfume and makeup, watches, cheap toys, and "As Seen on TV" junk like George Foreman grills. A similar thing happened when DVD movie and music CD sales evaporated. And they didn't do it intelligently. For example, one store had half of one full aisle dedicated to soldering stations, tools, and supplies. When they discontinued sales of this stuff, they replaced it with perfume. So now they had half of an aisle stocked with resistors, capacitors, and other discrete components and the other half of the same aisle stocked with perfume. Absolutely nuts.