Frys Electronics out of business.

pishta said

End of an era of an electronics superstore. I remember 400 people long lines to check out during black Friday sales and lines around the building on post Christmas sale days. Aisles of motherboards and cpu/memory modules....empty shelves after Pres. Trump China tarrifs. The beginning of the end. So long, thanks for the $249 55 inch TV i just bought.

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Kind of crazy that the only retailer hit by DT’s attempt to level the playing field was Fry Electrics. They gave me that same speel back in 2018 when I questioned a Fry employee on why the store stock was not being replaced. Interesting that Best Buy never ran out of flat screen TV’s, Dell never ran out of computer components, Apple Stores never ran out of IPads. I did not believe their story then and it is not the truth today. What Fry did was sell off inventory over time without replacing it to avoid losses associated to Going Out of Business sales. That lie probably also helped to keep employees from jumping ship.
Fry was a victim of the move to internet buying, plain and simple. Our local liberal newspaper said the closing was due to CV19. Why not, if you can’t blame it on DT, blame it on CV.