Posted on 02/23/2021 10:54:03 PM PST by Vendome
UPDATE: February 23, 2021 at 9:27 p.m. PT: KRON4 has confirmed that Fry's Electronics is closing its doors permanently. The report states that the company is expected to post closure details on its site sometime on Wednesday.
Fry’s Electronics has been a staple in the consumer electronics industry for a few decades now, and it would seem that it’s time has come. Some reports are starting to surface claiming that Fry’s Electronics is closing its doors for good as of February 23, 2021
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Maybe other places (like restaurants), but not Frys. The end has been inevitable for them for years now, getting barren even in the height of the Trump Boom.
Nope
Went to Fry’s on Hamilton October 2019.
By the time I made it to the back of the store I became confused.
Seems like I was the only customer and shelves were bare.
I drive by headquarters on Brokaw everyday and their parking lot has had few cars for well over a year.
The Fry boys are private jet wealthy and have many other businesses
Micro Center?
I thought the last one became Walmart...
Probably the one off Lawrence Expressway by “Weird Stuff”
Best Buy will be next
Just a guess, no rumor but writing on the wall
Wouldn’t be surprised. I hope not though. Need at least some local options to get appliances at least.
I worked there for years, in Phoenix. Sold off all remaining product over the last year. Bye Fry’s.
Someone needs to start up the Biden closure list ala Obama closure list if not done so already.
The original off Oakemead was in an old Fry's food store and they even used the Fry's food sign out front.
Selling groceries right next to microprocessors, computers and electronic supplies. You could walk out of the store with a soldering iron, a bread board, an HP oscilloscope, a mighty 16 bit Intel 80286 microprocessor, a Hawaiian pizza, chips, cheetos and a case of JOLT Cola - all the sugar and twice the caffeine of regular cola - all in the middle of the night.
Meeting place of the storied Bay Area Home Brew Computer Club
The number of start up companies and Silicone Valley fortunes that owe their existence to late night raids on the original Fry's will never be fully tallied , but it must be a lot. Those were the days that changed the world
-PJ
And don't forget 600 page books on things like op amp design, UHF wave guide design, compiler architectures, circuit board layout, etc.
People think the name was supposed to be pronounced "Comp U S A" when in fact "Compoosa" would be more realistic. That store sucked.
My last two major purchases there went bad immediately which wasn't their fault, but they refused to help me out on one of them, and gave me a hard time on the other but finally relented and replaced it. The former was a printer that didn't work right out of the box, the other was a monitor that died within days.
I'm glad they're gone.
There was never a Fry's in my area so I can't comment.
Best Buy has gotten better recently. The store near me used to have excruciatingly loud, throbbing, hip-hop music playing constantly which made shopping an ordeal. That's gone, thankfully.
Radio Shack made a lot of enemies by their policy of demanding name and address on every purchase, even for as little as a dollar.
In No. Va, we only have Best Buy. Radio Shake long gone. Best Products died a very early death (I worked there for a year). Sears - basically gone. Circuit City - gone; was a good store.
Target has some good basic items and so does Walmart but I haven’t bought anything electronic in years and what I need will have to come from smaller stores who might have some older connectors/cables in stock.
We do have one good small local appliance repair store and we’ve been going to them for about 20 years. Some of the Vietnamese stores have skilled electronics workers so they are our backup.
Used to hit up the BB on the corner of Reynolds & Airport in Toledo for flightsims in the mid-90’s. Spent some jack on hardware, too. Now obsolete but for nostalgics... Fun, though!
Hey, Jolt Cola—zoom!
Bought and final-assembled my first PC from Fry’s Manhattan Beach in 1991 when u lived in LA. Have lived and worked from 1-15 miles from the Tempe, AZ store for about 25 years now and was a fairly frequent customer till they started death-spiraling a couple years ago. Have heard the Fry’s (family) were dicks to the employees.
RIP Fry’s.
I’ve been in Tempe (rarely) , and when it got to the point that not only was there hardly any inventory, but they were breaking down the shelving in large areas of the store, I figured they had to be done for.
I used to buy all kinds of hard-to-find parts from them - plugs, adaptors, small power supplies, antenna mounts, etc.
Radio Shack and Pay'N'Pak and KMart and Blockbuster used to be my favorite stores.
And how about Burstein-Applebee's and Builder's Square and CompUSA?
(Sounds like I'm talking about stegosauruses and carrier pigeons and mastodons....)
TBird? I work right next to Tempe.
Yeah, but OTOH they had their battery-of-the-month club for free.
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