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My last Fry's trip, coincidentally at the Palo Alto store, I was searching for an 2-3ft HDMI extender, female to male. I figured since this was for connecting t

by jboy55 7y ago

My last Fry's trip, coincidentally at the Palo Alto store, I was searching for an 2-3ft HDMI extender, female to male. I figured since this was for connecting to a Raspi, I should start there. Plenty of small HDMI cables, but no dice. I happened upon another isle with 100m cables, by the ethernet cables, but a bit of searching saw they were not there. Lets check out the computer area, I see tonnes of options, search through them all, can't find it. break down and ask a guy, after much confusion he hauls be back to the raspi section. i told him I've already looked there. I walk back and see the tv/video section, of course, lots of high-end cables but no extender cable. Ask a guy, do you even have these? He shrugs, asked me if I looked through the computer section, I said yes, and I already looked in components. He started arguing with me that they didn't have ANY HDMI-anything there. "Why would you think they were there?!?!" Finally as I'm walking away, I spot some random sub-section of the tv isle. And around 8 cables there, I look over, there's one that's 5m long, weighs what seems to be 10lbs and cost $30. And I got my 10k steps in.

Stratoscope 7y ago
OMG you are describing my most recent visit to the Palo Alto Fry's. I needed some kind of USB cable, I don't remember exactly what it was. Nothing unusual, maybe an A to C, or an A to B Minor, or whatever. I asked when I walked in and they said "yes, look in aisle Foo". No luck, so I asked there. "Oh, you should check aisle Bar". Nothing there either, but the person in that aisle helpfully directed me to aisle Fizz. No luck there, but the person said "you might try aisle Buzz." And there was yet one more aisle after that. Yes, they had five different aisles with various selections of USB cables, many of them overlapping but a few different ones in each location. In the end, I had no luck finding what I needed - and I'd really hoped to get it on the spot to use for a project that evening. So I walked out a bit disappointed and spent two minutes on Amazon, ordered the exact cable I needed, and had it the next day. But the exercise of walking around the store was worth it!
DataJunkie 7y ago
The Palo Alto location has a very strange organization. I can't even describe what is wrong with it, but nothing is ever where I think it will be.

by jboy55 7y ago

Stratoscope 7y ago

OMG you are describing my most recent visit to the Palo Alto Fry's. I needed some kind of USB cable, I don't remember exactly what it was. Nothing unusual, maybe an A to C, or an A to B Minor, or whatever. I asked when I walked in and they said "yes, look in aisle Foo". No luck, so I asked there. "Oh, you should check aisle Bar". Nothing there either, but the person in that aisle helpfully directed me to aisle Fizz. No luck there, but the person said "you might try aisle Buzz." And there was yet one more aisle after that. Yes, they had five different aisles with various selections of USB cables, many of them overlapping but a few different ones in each location. In the end, I had no luck finding what I needed - and I'd really hoped to get it on the spot to use for a project that evening. So I walked out a bit disappointed and spent two minutes on Amazon, ordered the exact cable I needed, and had it the next day. But the exercise of walking around the store was worth it!

DataJunkie 7y ago

The Palo Alto location has a very strange organization. I can't even describe what is wrong with it, but nothing is ever where I think it will be.