Posted on 02/24/2021 1:46:50 AM PST by fwdude
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) – Fry’s Electronics is going out of business.
KRON4 has confirmed that the iconic Bay Area retailer is permanently closing the doors of all stores nationwide.
The company is expected to post closure information on its website early Wednesday.
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Lots of posts on this already here.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3937224/posts
They’ve been circling the drain for a while. We lost ours a couple years ago. Amazon casualty.
Hadn’t been to the one in Indy in a while, went in to get some computer parts and the place was all but barren. Parking lot had not been mowed or attended to. Knew then it was on the way out. That was last summer.
It’s the natural course of things.
Bender is gone so Fry had to close-up shop.
Danny props.
Amazon and streaming.
Just as Best Buy tried to pivot into cellphone support.
CDs and DVDs may not have been the moneymakers but they kept people coming in the stores.
Also blank CD-Rs etc became “a thing of the past”
Here’s a real bargain on eBay (no, not my listing):
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dynaco-Solid-State-Amplifier-Untested-Ships-Immediately/324471322315
Thanks!
Wow buddy! I hope you’re lucky like me and have a linemen and residential electrician in the family...
When my wife and I moved into our first home (rented) 30+ years ago, all of the round glass fuses in the fuse boxes had been replaced with pennies. We didn’t even stay a full week, the fuse and breaker boxes just looked TOO sketchy to stay! Nice and burned like your pics. God took care of us dumb kids!
Yeah I thought this was in the wind. I receive their daily emails and frankly they have been peddling a lot of junk for a while. Gone were the days of nice deals on quality Brand name TV’s and Receivers, computer components.....Micro Center can’t be far behind. A real shame.
Right. The Austin Fry’s is very stuck in the 1990s. Didn’t keep up with the times. The big deal about Fry’s was you could get computer components like motherboards, something that not many retailers sold at the time, but now you can get those online.
Back in the day the Fry’s in Roseville California was great. Huge selection and depth of merchandise.
Years ago, the great joy of my life was computer expos.
Loved buying parts and building desktops.
Still have my copy of Photoshop 4.
Software and hardware was cheap.
Circuit City and CompUSA going under broke my heart and then we lost Office Depot, too.
Best Buy is pitiful and I have no idea how Staples keeps going.
I don’t understand why the seller didn’t test it. /scratching head
I’ve built 5 computer systems with parts from my local Fry’s. The Friday ads were the cause for excitement.
A week ago I visited what had been a massive Fry’s store. The entire computer parts section was empty and roped off with yellow crime tape. I spoke with a floor manager and he blamed it “Chinese embargo”. I assumed he voted for Biden.
I could not see how Fry’s could remain in business with no computer electronics to sell. The CCP and friends in Gov’t have destroyed a good part of the economy.
Wish I owned more copper, lead and forged aluminum.
They were a Radio Shack knockoff?
I don’t know. Everything looks fine to me.
They were Radio Shack x10 on steroids. You could find the most obscure connectors there. I used to drive 90 miles to the one in Manhattan Beach if I needed a part for work.
The Fry’s in the malls around my way are awful. Very overpriced.
Dang, I am dating myself, but remember ordering build your own computer kits from Fry’s and all kinds of other electronic gadgets from power SCRs to TTL logic chips.
No need for a company anymore that actually sells components. Everyone wants out of the box gratification and do not want to put out the effort to actually build something themselves
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