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Another important detail which the article glosses over is that, when Frys' supplier relationships started failing around 2019-2020, their product selection abs
by duskwuff 8mo ago
Another important detail which the article glosses over is that, when Frys' supplier relationships started failing around 2019-2020, their product selection absolutely went to hell. When I visited a store in 2020, they had zero hard disks in stock - internal, external, mechanical, SSD, you name it, they didn't have it. I don't think they had any computer motherboards, CPUs, or memory, either. Plenty of cheap, generic shelf-fillers like hand sanitizer and light bulbs, though!
- throwup238 8mo agoIn that era I remember they had mostly fidget spinners. I think the staff were really bored at that point because half the fidget spinner inventory was in those clear plastic security boxes for what was a useless $10 toy.
- duskwuff 8mo agoI have a collection of photos from a trip I took to a Fry's shortly before its demise. Some of the things I saw on display were: - Multiple aisles of nothing but cheap, no-name hand sanitizer (all the same kind, too - not a broad selection) - Another entire aisle of pepper spray (again, a single item, just spread out really thin) - Cheap LED bulbs (the screw-in kind, not components) - Portable fans - Bluetooth party speakers (really big ones that looked like oversized roll-aboard luggage) I don't remember seeing any fidget spinners - but I wouldn't be surprised if some of the shelf-filler items were stocked on a store-by-store basis. It certainly didn't give me the impression of a carefully planned operation.