I wish some retailer would takeover these stores and sell all brands catering only to computer related products.
The stores would hold game nights on weekends for kids and teens. Almost certainly kids would coax their parents into buying equipment, peripherals, and accessories.
It was also nice to get to touch new lines of computer products, to absorb their look and feel.
There’s still Best Buy but it’s not the same.
Fry’s Electronics is weird. Their store aisles had become like ghost allies, lots of signs but no inventory. Kid you not. Maybe they’re gone by now. Haven’t checked on them in months. Last I asked one of their floor people where’s the inventory? He said it was on order. He later told me he was just hired. WTH?
Yeah, with Fry’s dying, we need MicroCenter or someone to fill the brick and mortar void. Need something better than Best Buy with their 59IQ seat sniffers. [eyeroll]
The Fry’s about a mile from me here in AZ and my former favorite stop for some memory or a mouse or whatever, I was in there not long ago, and not only is there no inventory and surly staff, but they’re even breaking down a lot of the shelving. RIP Fry’s.