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Just went to Fry's Electronics...
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I went to my local Fry's last month in Dallas and took these photos Of their
Damn. This is depressing to see.
This is what the same location (Dallas) looked like back in 2012. It was pouring down rain that night and I was killing time before my showing of Prometheus at Studio Movie Grill down the street. The roof was leaking so bad that it was raining almost as hard inside the store as it was outside the store. It reeked to high heaven of mildew. Shopping carts everywhere with trash bags in them trying to collect water, the floor covered in paper towels, and the shelves covered with plastic tarps to keep the merchandise dry.
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K-Mart at least had items to sell, just nobody there to sell it to, lol.
I also went to the Plano, TX location and they were in no better shape than the Dallas store. I heard at least 2 customers asking employees while I was in there, "Are you guys closing?"
I asked the cashier the same thing, and his answer was quite illuminating... "All I know is that yesterday they said were weren't closing and I have a job today. The shelves look so bare because we haven't had an inventory shipment in over 8 month."
EEK!
I asked the cashier the same thing, and his answer was quite illuminating... "All I know is that yesterday they said were weren't closing and I have a job today. The shelves look so bare because we haven't had an inventory shipment in over 8 month."
EEK!
After working in Frys and shopping at both - have to say Microcenter is the place to go for all computer needs.
Speaking of... What the hell happened to Bawls? It was like the one energy drink that actually tasted good, and now you'd be lucky to even find it at BevMo.
The Fry's in Woodland Hills, CA was once thriving. It is now a husk.
I went to this location for the first time two weeks ago since I had always gone to Plano's Fry, and yuuuuup it's as bad as it is in Plano. Maybe even worse since the Dallas location is too damn big.I went to my local Fry's last month in Dallas and took these photos Of their
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Was it the Concord location? Because if it is, it's now reversed, as I subsequently visited them both today too, lol.
How times change...
Yeah, but I only moved a few months ago, so it's hard to believe anything's changed too much. Maybe Best Buy was having a sale or something?
I'm not saying Fry's was busier 100% of the time, but over the three years I lived there that was definitely the trend.
Sad to hear the Plano one is like this too. That location always did insane amounts of business in the 00s.
I was regularly at the Dallas one too (always thought it was Garland). Yikes at those pics.
Yeah. Micro center near where I live is always busy and pretty well stocked. Their gaming section is awful but that's obviously not their focus, while their maker section is very well stocked and the sell through rate in that section is plainly very high.
I used to go to the Renton Fry's about 5 years ago, it was already looking unkept back then. I can only imagine how bad things are now.
I went to my local Fry's last month in Dallas and took these photos Of their
"But were definitely not closing. Everything is fine."
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Apparently the Fry's thing is pretty recent, which I'm sure probably impacted people to go to Best Buy now, since there's not another actual retailer that does PC like Best Buy does, so they could be related.
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Apparently all Fry's are having issues with their vendors, which is why they're shifting stock from some stores, and giving them to the busier stores.
I assume the Fremont or San Jose ones are probably the epicenters for all the merch from the other stores.
Oh wow, that would make sense then. I'm not sure about Fremont but yeah, I'm sure the San Jose store is far, far busier than the Concord one.
Haven't gone in almost a year now but when I went with my friend to help him pick out parts to build a computer for him, seemed the same as always to me, decent amount of people there. Guess quite a bit has changed since I've been there last unless it's just certain locations.
Kinda depressing, no micro center here so always went there for various projects/computer stuff.
Kinda depressing, no micro center here so always went there for various projects/computer stuff.
Yeah. I went there about two weeks ago and I bought the last gpu they had available, a 590.
The most complete collection they had was the porn section in the Blu-ray and dvd area. Lol
The most complete collection they had was the porn section in the Blu-ray and dvd area. Lol
I went to my local one last week. Legit walked around for 5 minutes before seeing another human being, be it a customer or an employee. It's a really sad place now. There are more aisles of "as seen on TV" garbage than there are blurays.
I went to this one a few months ago and it was the saddest shit.
I went to the one in San Diego today and it was empty. The PS4 second had only Greatest Hits and even that they only had 8 games just displayed to fill the entire shelf. One of those games being MLB The Show 17 (two year old game).
I'm honestly shocked that they just don't rope off part of the store and consolidate space, but they are dead soon enough.
I'm honestly shocked that they just don't rope off part of the store and consolidate space, but they are dead soon enough.
What a disgusting, despicable act, to try to lump the two together.
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Ugh. Pairing the two.
Awful post.
With dark misleading intentions.
Yeah, I took my son there about a month ago and I was stunned to see how much it had changed. Like the OP said, not all the lights were on and they had maybe half a dozen games for each platform. Their best stocked department seemed to be the AS SEEN ON TV section.
We've had a thread on the gaming side for a few months about it. My Fry's was pretty sad when I popped in last month for a cat6 cable. End of an era.
I went and checked out the Vegas Fry's about 3 weeks ago, especially after someone posted a thread here awhile back mentioning the Vegas one was dead. It wasn't as dire as the pictures posted above, but I noticed that there was still the appearance of a lot of stuff, but it was deceiving. There were whole rows of shelves that were just gone, and you could see the clean parts of the carpet where they used to be, especially in the DVD/Video Game section.
The bins that they used to have in the middle of the aisles were gone, a lot of the electronic components were still there, but dramatically reduced to 1.5 aisles, and again, not a lot of variety. It just looks like a lot of stuff, but really a lot of the same thing. They've done a good job masking how little variety they have by keeping all of the displays out on the shelves, but I noticed there wasn't much of the actual boxed product around. There was a lot of the random crap that Fry's always had.
They had a fuckton of TVs. They always had a large amount of TVs, but still, I was shocked that they still had so many TVs that were stocked in the aisle like in the old days.
The most telling thing to me was that the actual store stock racks were virtually empty, which means that everything out on the floor was all they had.There was still a decent amount of people there, but nowhere near what it used to be when it was busy all the time. Still had a decent amount of employees, but no line for the checkout which was the most amazing thing for me. I always had to stand in line at that store no matter what, with an employee up front telling you which counter to go to since they always had 10-15 open. But now? Nada.
The bins that they used to have in the middle of the aisles were gone, a lot of the electronic components were still there, but dramatically reduced to 1.5 aisles, and again, not a lot of variety. It just looks like a lot of stuff, but really a lot of the same thing. They've done a good job masking how little variety they have by keeping all of the displays out on the shelves, but I noticed there wasn't much of the actual boxed product around. There was a lot of the random crap that Fry's always had.
They had a fuckton of TVs. They always had a large amount of TVs, but still, I was shocked that they still had so many TVs that were stocked in the aisle like in the old days.
The most telling thing to me was that the actual store stock racks were virtually empty, which means that everything out on the floor was all they had.There was still a decent amount of people there, but nowhere near what it used to be when it was busy all the time. Still had a decent amount of employees, but no line for the checkout which was the most amazing thing for me. I always had to stand in line at that store no matter what, with an employee up front telling you which counter to go to since they always had 10-15 open. But now? Nada.
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Bummer to hear this, I was planning to make a trip down to Dallas to visit Fry's. I used to work at the one in Phoenix in the early 2000s and used to visit both the Sacramento and Roseville one until I moved away in 2015. Complete bummer that there are so few stores that actually sell a good selection of pc components anymore.
I went to the Anaheim one a couple weeks ago. It was like a ghost town. I think I could count the number of employees I saw working there on one hand. Empty shelves and what product they did have they would literally try to stretch it out to make the shelves "appear" full. They literally only had 2 motherboards in stock, in boxes, both of which looked beat up to hell and were probably returned. Sad to see how it's fallen.
It's weird seeing all this talk about Microcenter being superior yet the one in the Bay Area that was here was killed because of Fry's and now we haven't had one in ages. They opened way too close to the Sunnyvale Fry's too. It seemed like a dumb location to put one.
i remember playing the phantom menace pc game in summer '99 at that micro center. the pokemon jungle TCG set had just come out too
geez time flies by
I've never been to a Fry's before but this is exactly how I pictured it whenever I've heard of the store. Wow. I can imagine the aisles full of stuff. Wish we had that here in the south.I went to my local Fry's last month in Dallas and took these photos Of their
Sounds very close to my visit to Staples a couple months ago. It wasn't as empty on the shelves (although they definitely had shrunk the total amount of aisles), but you could hear a pin drop in there. I was in there for 40 minutes with a slow ass friend and I saw 3 workers including the lone cashier and maybe 6 other customers.
No one was buying anything except my friend. There was an insane section of office/gaming chairs taking up close to one fifth of the floor space that seemed untouched. Many duplicate models were assembled for display needlessly, I am guessing by bored staff. One employee asked me 3 times if I was looking for something as he shuffled stock around to further downsize the aisles. It was legit depressing being there.
No one was buying anything except my friend. There was an insane section of office/gaming chairs taking up close to one fifth of the floor space that seemed untouched. Many duplicate models were assembled for display needlessly, I am guessing by bored staff. One employee asked me 3 times if I was looking for something as he shuffled stock around to further downsize the aisles. It was legit depressing being there.
my neighborhood Fry's was always poppin', sometimes hard to even get a parking space...
in my head it's still like that but i just realized i hadn't stepped foot in there since 2016 or something. weird/scary how fast that shit can drop off (assuming my store had a similar fate)
in my head it's still like that but i just realized i hadn't stepped foot in there since 2016 or something. weird/scary how fast that shit can drop off (assuming my store had a similar fate)
This is what happens when you buy everything online instead of supporting retail.
This is why I still shop on the high street unless I can't find what I need in store. Amazon is a last resort for me.
This is why I still shop on the high street unless I can't find what I need in store. Amazon is a last resort for me.
Yeah, it's sad to see. I've always had a particular attachment to this location, because my dad would frequently shop there and take me with him when I was a kid. Now, I go there a few weeks back, and it's a ghost town... completely unexpected. It was always such a nice store, too, Alice in Wonderland theme and all.