Goodbye Fry's

[Michael Butash]

I tend to agree here they were the worst for a good while, and just
continued to go down hill.  I remember when the Tempe location was still
Incredible Universe with fond memories of an ultimate geek heaven in the
90's, then it became frys.  I've not been to one in a good 5 years, but
over the 20-some years I did go to either store, they just got worse and
worse.

Mostly I would go there for odd electrical components mostly, and they'd
never have what I needed, mostly due to lack of inventory upkeep.  If I
needed something random like a PSU for someone's pc that blew out, it was
stupidly expensive vs. an overnight from newegg.  Their sales drones were
the worst too, with them following you around trying to get a small
commission off what you were buying for "helping you".  I usually have to
shoo them off, and sometimes nastily with "I know far more than you ever
will, go away'.  If anything, I'd go there, figure out what I wanted, kick
the tires some, and come home to buy online at a significant discount
pretty much anywhere else.

Their value to humanity has been dubious for a good while, to that I say
good riddance.

I'll be curious to see if and who ends up buying their buildings (if
anyone), particularly the ones with cultural themes like the Aztec Temple
design at thunderbird, or some of the other various themed buildings they
did in other places like the bay area where they were all different themes
from Aztec to Wild West.  Probably just level them and turn them into
condos...

-mb


On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 2:08 PM Aaron Jones via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> 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> wrote:
>
> Looks like Fry's Electronics finally bit the dust. :(
>
> https://news.yahoo.com/frys-electronics-closes-nationwide-055027690.html
>
> Peter
>
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