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Micro Center seems to be going fine. Fully stocked (with the exception of CPU) and always busy. No issues price matching online either.
by madengr 7y ago
Micro Center seems to be going fine. Fully stocked (with the exception of CPU) and always busy. No issues price matching online either.
- mikelward 7y agoThe one in the Bay Area (Santa Clara Mercado) closed years ago and became a Walmart. As far as I know, there's only one in SoCal still open (Tustin).
- fortytw2 7y agoKinda anecdotal, but the one in Richardson (DFW) is almost always packed. Easily one of my favorite brick and mortar stores anywhere.
- Aloha 7y agohttps://www.frys.com/ac/storeinfo/fountain_valley-location-frys-electronics-hours-maps-directions https://www.frys.com/ac/storeinfo/fountain_valley-location-f...
- mikelward 7y agoThis subthread was about Microcenter.
- bigyikes 7y agoThere is still one open in Sunnyvale a few miles away from Santa Clara Mercado, but I’m not sure how much longer it’ll be around.
- _jal 7y agoYeah, I was in there about a month ago, needed a few long ethernet cables while at a datacenter. Same thing everyone else reports: it was dark with a few bored employees wondering around aimlessly. Alternating messy and bare shelves. Absurd amounts of floor space compared to the trade they were doing. They did have 50' ethernet cables, though.
- mikelward 7y agoThis subthread was about Microcenter.
- luckydata 7y agoThere's one in Sunnyvale, one in Fremont and one in Palo Alto.
- seattle_spring 7y agoNone of those 3 locations are SoCal.
- Diederich 7y agoI believe the one in Sunnyvale is closing. Last time we were there, maybe a couple of months ago, the shelves were being emptied out.
- WWLink 7y agoI believe they were talking about Microcenter.
- luckydata 7y agoAh, could be. Reading on mobile and all that.
- sn 7y agoThere used to be a Micro Center in the Mercado shopping center. There's no Micro Center in Northern California any more.
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- mikelward 7y agoParent was talking about Microcenter, not Fry's.
- TheAdamist 7y agoJust stopped in my local microcenter (Wayne, pa) after not being in for a year or two and they had blocked off a third of the store with ugly shelving, Hopefully they are using the space for shipping or something, but I'm somewhat worried as they are the last physical store with a decent selection in the wide area. Multiple aisles of cheap cellphone accessories aren't a good look either, but there were a bunch of Anker boxes - whose cables I like.
- wronglebowski 7y agoThat whole shopping center is getting remodeled and the management has been arguing about renovating the space. It's just a bunch of back and forth on who will pay for what, since they only lease half of that building. I have heard they are doing quite well.
- josephwegner 7y agoLiterally just did this last week. Needed some more RAM for my laptop, and figured a quick drop into Fry's would work. It was pitiful and absolutely shocking. I have to say 70% of the store was empty, with multiple departments worth of shelving completely empty. They didn't have the RAM I needed, and the options they did have were poorly price... and hard to find... and the sales associate in the area seemed to not know what customers were for and completely ignored me. Left, drove to Microcenter, and had to fight my way through the crowds to get to the RAM. They had multiple options, happy associates, and I even poked around with fun 3d printing stuff because the store was so well stocked. It's wild that their situation is so different.
- nickthegreek 7y agoColumbus Ohio microcenter was PACKED (both shelves, and people) during the holidays. Love that place.