Comment on Empires fall
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 days agoI miss early 2000s Fry’s Electronics. Back when they still cared.
Even 2010s Fry’s was a shit show. They always sold out if the ad special of the week. They had random out of stocks that took up huge chunks of the aisles, with a lot of old, undesirable stuff left over. And then they’d give you a hard time with returns.
wjrii@lemmy.world 2 days ago
End stage Fry’s was so weird it could have been a Terry Gilliam movie or something. Vast expanses of mostly empty aisles with the few bits of leftover inventory still there, but interspersed with filled-up cages of AliExpress junk at 10x the AE price or 3x the “get it tomorrow” Amazon price. Then there would be one or two areas where the vendors had gone along with their cockamamie “we’ll sell your shit on consignment!” scam, and a few sad employees trying to avoid making eye contact.
Yet Microcenter endures.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 day ago
At least I can generally go into Microcenter and they’ll have what I need.