<div dir="ltr">A lot of good memories of walking down the fry's isles and making a project up on the fly.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 4:13 PM Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2/24/21 2:08 PM, Aaron Jones via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
> Finally. Good riddance. Their customer service was the worst. <br>
> <br>
>> On Feb 24, 2021, at 1:05 PM, Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Yeah, nice of them to tell us, the general public, that they were<br>
>> closing their doors. I went up to the Frys electronics last week to<br>
>> shop for some hardware. The shelves were almost bare, but prices were<br>
>> still at pre-covid levels. About the only indication that things were<br>
>> happening was the store had a much smaller customer area footprint and<br>
>> that some shelves were empty and products out of stock.<br>
>><br>
>> I only learned on twitter last night about 3 hours before midnight<br>
>> local time that Frys would be closing their doors and terminating the<br>
>> website.<br>
>><br>
>> Oh well, now I guess it’s down to Newegg, GreyBar and Amazon to pick<br>
>> up the slack. If anyone happens to have other retailers that we, as<br>
>> the open source community, should support, then posting here wouldn’t<br>
>> be a bad idea.<br>
>><br>
>> -Eric<br>
>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Consignment Dept.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>>> On Feb 24, 2021, at 12:07 PM, AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss<br>
>>> <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br>
>>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Looks like Fry's Electronics finally bit the dust. :(<br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/frys-electronics-closes-nationwide-055027690.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://news.yahoo.com/frys-electronics-closes-nationwide-055027690.html</a><br>
<br>
I will miss Fry's. Nowhere else could you walk down an aisle of nothing<br>
but resistors, capacitors, and bread boards.<br>
<br>
Newegg has my money these days though. They're one of the few retailers<br>
that actively push back against patent trolls, and don't immediately<br>
cave in.<br>
<br>
-Matt<br>
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