I've had some issues with my router lately (an aging Mikrotik 802.11n box whose mediocre wireless performance is in play now that on of our main PCs has been sw

I've had some issues with my router lately (an aging Mikrotik 802.11n box whose mediocre wireless performance is in play now that on of our main PCs has been switched to wireless). It's time; the damn things bake themselves to death every few years regardless of brand, firmware, etc. Was looking at one of the $50-60 TP-Link 802.11ac jobs. I figured I'd check Fry's since they've started advertising "Local same-day delivery for $3" when the best Amazon can do for a lot of stuff is $13 for two-day delivery. Plus, I honestly hate dealing with Amazon and their six-times-a-week solicitation for "Prime Student" considering I graduated 15+ years ago. This would not be a hard sale for them to win. They sell the right type of goods, tyhey have the infrastructure to deliver it to me as fast as the competition, and the listed prices weren't wildly out of line with online dealers. They didn't have the router I wanted. Hell, expanding the search to a generic "AC1200 router" revealed well more than half of the items as "out of stock for pickup/local delivery; we'll mail it to you in a week.". A few had "same-day delivery for $70" (maybe this is some weird surge pricing from the firm they contracy same-day delivery to?) It wasn't even obviously a bait-and-switch play (where the $50 units are out of stock so you'll buy the $150 ones)-- both cheap and expensive gear had hugely erratic stocking. It almost felt like they were trying to pivot from a retail place where the web storefront was a way to reserve or order local-delivery of retail stocked goods, towards a conventional mail-order house. Seeing the 200 "order now for dispatch Monday" buttons doesn't look weird on Newegg because it's not being contrasted with big red "Not available for pickup at City, ST", but here it looks sad.