Went to Frys yesterday and asked a couple of sales people when new stock was coming and they said they didnt know.
I headed back to the audio/video area where there used to be a pretty big Bose demo area and it was all gone. Replaced by DJ speakers. I asked a sales person what happened and he said that Bose had pulled out.
Frys is done
Who the hell cares about Bose? No one.
You are already looking at the new business model-this isnt really new they announced it over a month ago due to repeated media pressure, meaning they've been “trying” to get vendors to go consignment for probably many months now.
Also hard to get someone to loan you product when you most likely already owe them money. Not realistic actually.
The new product your seeing are oddball off brands, which wont keep a store alive. Mainstream is mainstream for a reason-it sells.
Also, several items only have a few brands. You wont have any other off brand options. Motherboards, hard drives, graphics cards, etc.., You cant just move to an off brand. You either deal with them or get none.
For over half a year the shelves have been going empty. Logical conclusion is no one is willing to do this business model, since all Im seeing are oddball brands which are most likely a new vendor. They are 100% not the old vendors willing to go consignment.
Black Friday is coming up. By now someone should have pushed as if their job depended upon it for the vendors to go consignment. It didnt/hasnt happened. Even from a vendor point of view if they were willing to go consignment this would have been the time, right now! Yet no one is dealing. What makes you think a vendor is unwilling to make some form of deal during the utmost biggest sale time of the year, yet would be willing afterwards when sales inevitably drop big-time come January? Totally illogical.
It's all about which vendors will agree with the new business model...Fry's is adopting the same business model as Staples and office Depot. Vendors will ship to the stores on a consignment basis just like staples and office depot. Vendors that don't agree will no longer be available at Fry's. I guess it's just a matter of time to have new inventory arriving in the stores under the new model. Regardless, Fry's own most of their stores buldings and they will only keep their own stores moving forward. Seems like the right thing to do!
Regardless, theres a huge gaping hole where tons of Bose products used to be. So either Frys cant pay Bose for more product, owes Bose and Bose wont sell them more product, or Bose pulled out due to the aforementioned. That and if Frys wont pay for the space that shows a large lack of customers and a dying place, especially considering Bose is an established, known brand.
Pick your poison both are horrible and indicate impending doom looking at it either way.
Bose didn't pull out Fry's stopped renting the show room equipment from them, not all stores had a demo area in the first place and it was a personalized selling service offered by Bose.
The Bose display was removed from all the stores here months ago.