Fry’s Electronics has been a shopping destination mainly on the West Coast for gadget heads of all kinds, but now the retailer is giving up. On Twitter, Wario64 pointed to a tweet from a former employee and the owner of the antivirus store, noting that employees discovered on Tuesday night that it was the last night that stores would open and that the site was going down.
Bay Area Presenter KRON4 confirmed the rumors, saying information about the country’s closure will appear on the company’s website on Wednesday morning. Fry’s was founded in 1985 and was known for storing all the electronic parts you could ever need and for notoriously poor customer service. It was the kind of place where you could find a badly labeled Nokia N9, watch a game launch at midnight and be fooled by a demonstration of the “Monster HDMI quality difference”.
The company’s West Coast stores were also themed in odd levels of detail, bringing sci-fi touches to one location, Aztec references to another, and even a NASA-themed location in Houston that featured hourly launch countdowns. . The number of locations has declined in recent years, and even before the COVID pandemic, buyers noticed empty shelves and strange product choices that suggested that Fry’s wouldn’t be on the market much longer.
RIP FOR A LEGEND
In the light of the 21st century, prepare for the future.
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