Thread regarding Fry's Electronics layoffs

Palo Alto

The same is true in Palo Alto, CA, where nothing seems to be restocked and most shelves are getting close to 50% bare. I had a feeling something wasn't right with the business last year, when sparseness in the inventory, parking lot and customers in the store was palpable.

Back in the 80-90's and most of 2000s, Fry's was packed of inventory and customers. The checkout line was typically 10 to 20 people deep. It's only in the past couple of years the Fry's business model has shown to have lost the war with eCommerce. Although Fry's has tried to compete with eCommerce it's too late to catch up with the train.

Fry's was truly a tinker's heaven, whether you were into computers, electronics or just plain do it yourself type. It will be truly missed, because there's nowhere else you can visit locally especially if you need that something right now. I use to enjoy wandering around the store to see what's new and gaining a mental picture of what they had, so if on the occasion I needed that something I could recall "seen it at Frys" moment.

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Same here. Just found out that Central Computers has a lot of PC parts, so I got something there instead. The emptiness is really worrying me, I really hope Fry's will stay around.

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Just visited the Fry’s in Fountain Valley, CA Orange County California and I’m shocked. Last time I went here the place was packed with people and products, isles of the coolest gadgets. It’s Monday at 6:30pm rush hour traffic on the 405 and literally 20 customer’s car in the ginormous parking lot. We went for a new phone and did a loop around the entire store and there was maybe a dozen shoppers mingling around less than half full shelves on mostly empty isles. Has the look and feel of going out of business. I’m completely shocked this is was the toys r us for adults! Have spent thousands of dollars and countless hours meandering the isles. I’m writing this in the parking lot after leaving, I knew something wasn’t right and looking up Fry’s when I got to the car. Truly sad to see all the employees looked depressed nobody is buying stuff. Hopefully they don’t completely die off.

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I hear you on that sentiment. I couldn't believe my eyes when I went in there yesterday at our Phoenix location looking for a simple single male to double female rca cable. All the shelves were empty, most of the audio section for cars was half empty, Tv's were turned on and nobody home. It was really sad. I used to be able to find anyone in second, they were always there and eager to help. The problem with Frys is, yes, they didn't keep up with times, they tried to match prices on the internet, but there's no way that any brick and mortar store can keep up with an online superstore that gets away with not paying taxes, like Amazon. I bet you anything, if congress stopped Bezos and forced him to pay taxes on state AND federal, closed those loopholes, he would be paying out a lot more, and people would be less willing to shop there with the higher prices. I admit, Amazon is super easy to order something and it's at my house the next day. I do miss the days of driving to Frys and picking up a motherboard - cpu combo, driving back only to find that it was a bad mobo and repeating this process about 3-4 times. LOL. All kidding aside, I loved Frys and I'm sad that it's another victim of online shopping. Whoever owns Frys should just do what Bezo does. Close it down. Move into a country that avoids paying Federal and state taxes, and reopens a new "amazon" model for electronics. We'd all be there in a heartbeat! haha. I had to drive to two different Best Buys, the one next to Fry's is probably on it's way out the doors soon as well, they wanted to set up shop RIGHT NEXT to Frys to hurt them, which they did a tad, but it backfired also. There's only one or two really busy Best Buys here that reminds me of the good ole' Fry's days in the 2000s. Tons of people, shiny new toys, oh my my...

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