The first Fry's electronics was a converted food market; the Fry brothers owned a series of food markets along route 99 up central California and they asked a r

The first Fry's electronics was a converted food market; the Fry brothers owned a series of food markets along route 99 up central California and they asked a research firm to see about branching into the Silicon Valley. The report back went something like "they don't need food stores but electronics gear would be nice" (going on memory from a conversation with an employee in that first Fry's when I visited it). Walk in the front door and turn left - you have a food store. Turn right, an you were in a totally amazing electronics store - far more stuff than Radio Shack ever had, plus the most awesome magazine rack I'd ever seen. That store added a new dimension to the old phrase "chips and dips" EDIT: fixed typo