Goodbye Fry's

[Matthew Crews]

On 2/24/21 2:08 PM, Aaron Jones via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Finally. Good riddance. Their customer service was the worst. 
> 
>> On Feb 24, 2021, at 1:05 PM, Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
>> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, nice of them to tell us, the general public, that they were
>> closing their doors. I went up to the Frys electronics last week to
>> shop for some hardware. The shelves were almost bare, but prices were
>> still at pre-covid levels. About the only indication that things were
>> happening was the store had a much smaller customer area footprint and
>> that some shelves were empty and products out of stock.
>>
>> I only learned on twitter last night about 3 hours before midnight
>> local time that Frys would be closing their doors and terminating the
>> website.
>>
>> Oh well, now I guess it’s down to Newegg, GreyBar and Amazon to pick
>> up the slack. If anyone happens to have other retailers that we, as
>> the open source community, should support, then posting here wouldn’t
>> be a bad idea.
>>
>> -Eric
>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Consignment Dept.
>>
>>
>>> On Feb 24, 2021, at 12:07 PM, AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss
>>> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>>> <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Looks like Fry's Electronics finally bit the dust. :(
>>>
>>> https://news.yahoo.com/frys-electronics-closes-nationwide-055027690.html

I will miss Fry's. Nowhere else could you walk down an aisle of nothing
but resistors, capacitors, and bread boards.

Newegg has my money these days though. They're one of the few retailers
that actively push back against patent trolls, and don't immediately
cave in.

-Matt
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