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I lived near the Palo Alto Fry's around the same time when I was a kid, and I always remembered it as a supermarket with some electronics. It wasn't until coll
by snapetom 6y ago
I lived near the Palo Alto Fry's around the same time when I was a kid, and I always remembered it as a supermarket with some electronics. It wasn't until college that I got interested in computers and electronics and started to go back to Fry's again. I was always sort of puzzled - did I remember the supermarket correctly? Was it a Fry's? Whenever I said to people, "Fry's was a supermarket," they looked at me like I was indeed crazy.
- BeetleB 6y agoYou are thinking of this (owned by Kroger's): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fry%27s_Food_and_Drug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fry%27s_Food_and_Drug Similar logo, but different store, although they do share an origin.
- libraryatnight 6y agoThis was a source of confusion for me as a kid. My dad, somewhat excitedly, saying "They're opening a Fry's here!" "...what's wrong with the one that just took over Smitty's?" "No, for electronics!" "They're putting in an electronics section" "No it's a Fry's Electronics. Computer and electronics parts." "Oh, cool..." And until we went I think I still had in mind a grocery store with some computers just past housewares.
- snapetom 6y agoYep, but at some point, the Fry's in Palo Alto did become solely a Fry's Electronics.
- garmaine 6y agoNot similar, same. John Fry went to school at Santa Clara University, and brought the family franchise supermarket store to the Bay Area, then localized it. At some point selling electronic parts in Silicon Valley was more profitable than selling produce, so the Bay Area "Fry's Food and Drug" became "Fry's Electronics".
- lscotte 6y agoActually parent remembers it right. At that time, Fry's in the Bay Area was roughly half supermarket and half electronics.