Fry's Electronics closing permanently

Questor

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Feb 25, 2021, 3:08:44 PM2/25/21

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One of the last signature Silicon Valley retail icons has fallen. Fry's
Electronics is closing its doors for good. Although they're blaming the
pandemic, the stores have been circling the drain for a couple of years. I read
reports of aisles and aisles of empty shelves, with nothing to buy. Employees
gave vague answers when asked about restocking. It was apparent that they were
having cash flow problems, and that their suppliers were no longer extending
credit. I'm surprised they held on this long.

Once the Silicon Valley was an electronics/computer nerd's retail paradise:
Fry's, Computer Literacy Bookstores, Weird Stuff Warehouse, and a handful of
lesser known, similar stores. All gone now.

Daniel

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Feb 26, 2021, 3:12:32 AM2/26/21

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I never got to go to a Federated, as I was a child when those qwerky ads
were on tv, but it would've been great to visit it once.

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Daniel
Visit me at: gopher://gcpp.world

Adrian Caspersz

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Feb 28, 2021, 6:26:09 PM2/28/21

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On 25/02/2021 20:09, Questor wrote:
> One of the last signature Silicon Valley retail icons has fallen. Fry's
> Electronics is closing its doors for good. Although they're blaming the
> pandemic, the stores have been circling the drain for a couple of years. I read
> reports of aisles and aisles of empty shelves, with nothing to buy. Employees
> gave vague answers when asked about restocking. It was apparent that they were
> having cash flow problems, and that their suppliers were no longer extending
> credit. I'm surprised they held on this long.
>

Visited the Las Vegas Fry's store in 2006 and later in 2016. Both times
it looked a real ramshackle of a department store (beds, furniture?),
domestic electricals, Audio, TV, a music store and an enthusiast section
of PC bits and tools. Scopes and meters, books, bagged individual
components.

All of this laid out, and as visitor from the UK, I really wanted to buy
something tech as a momento of the visit. I found nothing that was
keenly priced or immediately useful. The place looked kind of dated and
desolate on both visits.

I bought a Sony branded portable CD player from Radio Shack instead.

Oh well.... time for a slew of YouTube vids lamenting the demise.

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Adrian C

Adrian Caspersz

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Mar 2, 2021, 4:04:39 AM3/2/21

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On 28/02/2021 23:26, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
>
> Visited the Las Vegas Fry's store in 2006 and later in 2016. Both times
> it looked a real ramshackle of a department store (beds, furniture?), >
>

> Oh well.... time for a slew of YouTube vids lamenting the demise.
>

Ah, here ye go, vid from an ex-employee

Fry's Electronics | End of an Era | Chris Titus Tech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-D3jAGsRTE

Yeah, they had perfumery gift sets on sale in there. That was weird.

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Adrian C

Vir Campestris

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Mar 2, 2021, 10:04:30 AM3/2/21

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On 02/03/2021 09:04, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
> Ah, here ye go, vid from an ex-employee
>
> Fry's Electronics | End of an Era | Chris Titus Tech
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-D3jAGsRTE
>
> Yeah, they had perfumery gift sets on sale in there. That was weird.

Even geeks have mothers ;)

Andy