Goodbye Fry's

[James Mcphee]

A lot of good memories of walking down the fry's isles and making a project
up on the fly.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 4:13 PM Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> 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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James McPhee
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