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https://frysforum.com/ in-depth discussion by the Fry's Electronics fandom
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Oct 7, 2019 21:51
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hamtaro posted:https://frysforum.com/ in-depth discussion by the Fry's Electronics fandom lol 
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Oct 7, 2019 21:54
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Snow Cone Capone posted:I would imagine a city founder/leader named Mr. Downer *Ding* *Ding* *Ding* quote:Downers Grove is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. It was founded in 1832 by Pierce Downer, whose surname serves as the eponym for the village. It is a southwestern suburb of Chicago in the I-55 Corridor. There's a lovely looking restaurant named, "Downer's Delight." I used to drive past it pretty often and always thought it sounded like some kind of slang for drugs.
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Oct 7, 2019 21:58
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LabyaMynora posted:*Ding* *Ding* *Ding* Are there descendents of the Downer family still there? I'll bet they're a bunch of rich morose assholes if so.
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Oct 7, 2019 22:02
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:Fry's has been overblown and dying ever since Newegg and Amazon took over the PC parts and electronics market. The stores are way too massive with lots of wasted space. Prices are average at best too.  I can hear the Star Trek: TNG music kicking in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5kcBxL7-qI
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Oct 7, 2019 22:17
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by grabthar's hammer... what a savings
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Oct 7, 2019 22:18
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Good prices and selection sure but lol at "compact stores" the only places around here bigger than Microcenter are Super Walmarts and Costcos
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Oct 7, 2019 22:20
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Julius CSAR posted:Micro Center is still awesome. It’s like the only place around to go and get computer components that isn’t some strip mall shop run by two dudes from Russia who spend their days unloading viruses for grandma. Before it was Fry's, I'd visit the Incredible Universe store near Phoenix. It was like Disneyland for electronics. Speaking of Disneyland, there was a shop that sold surplus computer stuff that was long out of date, just a couple of miles from Disneyland in Anaheim. A few years ago I went there and they still had a bin of Commodore 64 software. Since I still have my old SX-64, I bought a few titles. Great fun. I have not been in a Fry's since the turn of the century. I guess I'm to blame for its financial woes.
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Oct 7, 2019 22:37
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back in the day my friends and i would smoke some weed and go to frys and browse for hours it was good times
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Oct 7, 2019 22:38
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Good prices and selection sure but lol at "compact stores" the only places around here bigger than Microcenter are Super Walmarts and Costcos Maybe it's a different around the country but the Micro Center locations around here are much smaller than Walmart and tiny compared to what CompUSA and Circuit City used to be like too.
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Oct 7, 2019 22:40
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:Maybe it's a different around the country but the Micro Center locations around here are much smaller than Walmart and tiny compared to what CompUSA and Circuit City used to be like too. Are they just PC components? The one by me has basically a Best Buy (TVs, home entertainment, cell phones, etc.) in addition to the components and such, plus a decently-sized video game section, and a big-rear end counter where 2 nerds tell you how best to pimp out your gaming rig.  photo doesn't really do it justice, that's maybe 1/3 of the store?
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Oct 7, 2019 22:51
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Are they just PC components? The one by me has basically a Best Buy (TVs, home entertainment, cell phones, etc.) in addition to the components and such, plus a decently-sized video game section, and a big-rear end counter where 2 nerds tell you how best to pimp out your gaming rig. There's some TV, home theater setups, and the usual other Best Buy style stuff, but not very much of it by me. Most of the store is PC components, iPads, and laptops.
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Oct 7, 2019 22:58
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I haven't been to my local Fry's in awhile (Renton, WA) but I went to the one in Las Vegas a couple months ago and man that was a sad shithole of empty racks and display TVs with the worst burn in you've ever seen. Also Micro Center only has 1 location on the west coast, what the hell 
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Oct 7, 2019 23:02
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I remember going to Frys in the 90s with my grandfather. He bought a brand new HP desktop with Pentium 133mhz and 8mb ram. It was crazy fast. He bought me my first 3d graphics card. Matox Mystique. Piece of poo poo, should have got the voodoo2.
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Oct 8, 2019 00:52
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I had to get some audio cables and some small parts same day so one of my coworkers told me to go to B&H which is a few blocks from where we work. He gave me the info of a guy he knows that works there. I emailed him what I needed and he said to stop by they have everything in stock. I get there and meet the dude. He says they didn’t have anything on display but he’ll put the order in. I’m like ok. He gives me a ticket and takes me to the cashier. Never got to see or handle what I was buying. I pay the cashier and she gives me another ticket and tells me to go to another counter. I wait in line there and eventually give the ticket to a guy there. After a few minutes he says the order isn’t ready yet. Gives me another ticket to take to another counter that’s specifically for people who have to wait longer for their orders. I get my stuff eventually and each item is individually bagged. He hands me 5 bags. Three of the bags each have a single cable in it. The whole ordeal took about 45 minutes to buy some basic audio cables and some hardware.
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Oct 8, 2019 01:21
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Used to use the one near Sunnyvale a fair bit when I lived in the US in the 90s. It wasn't bad back then in those pre-Amazon days and I got a bunch of stuff there over the years - a CRT telly (sales guy didn't understand what I meant when I told him I wanted to buy a "telly"), assorted PC bits and pieces including a ZIP drive and a Voodoo2, a Toshiba laptop thick as a bible and a pre-OSX Mac laptop, a Kodak digital camera as big as a pair of binoculars that took extremely low resolution pictures and stored them on a PCMCIA card, and didn't even have a screen (or an LCD viewfinder or anything at all to view the pictures on, you had to download them to your PC to see them). There was a Weird Stuff just over the road that was pretty fun to browse, in which I once found a Vic-20 cartridge with one of my own games on it. Shame to hear it's going tits but hardly surprising given Amazon etc. It was kind of handy when you needed some PC part immediately. These days I'm back in the UK and such places are all but gone - PC World doesn't really carry proper bits of PCs any more, only ready built stuff, consumables and cables that must be made of precious materials given the cost, and Maplins has gone tits already.
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Oct 8, 2019 02:13
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the one in San Marcos, CA is Atlantis themed and when it opened they had arcing electricity running up wires in glass obelisks. it ruled. https://goo.gl/maps/kZcUun5Sj7Eoyggk8
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Oct 8, 2019 02:17
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The one in my state was supposed to have a theme but never was implemented. Was just lovely warehouse themed. Don't really feel too bad about it going out of business.
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Oct 8, 2019 02:35
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SAD! Even my non-nerd mom is sad. There is one really near her in Houston and I used to wait for a trip down there to her to pick up any parts she or I needed for our PCs. It is/was oil platform themed. These days I just order my parts online, generally through newegg, but we still rolled around Fry's whenever she needed something. Yes I'm still mom plan tech support. There's a Micro Center in Houston as well but it's much further away from her in one of the most traffic hellish parts of the city so eeeeeh. I'll probably just order stuff online for her in the future.
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Oct 8, 2019 02:56
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stinky ox posted:Used to use the one near Sunnyvale a fair bit when I lived in the US in the 90s. It wasn't bad back then in those pre-Amazon days and I got a bunch of stuff there over the years - a CRT telly (sales guy didn't understand what I meant when I told him I wanted to buy a "telly"), assorted PC bits and pieces including a ZIP drive and a Voodoo2, a Toshiba laptop thick as a bible and a pre-OSX Mac laptop, a Kodak digital camera as big as a pair of binoculars that took extremely low resolution pictures and stored them on a PCMCIA card, and didn't even have a screen (or an LCD viewfinder or anything at all to view the pictures on, you had to download them to your PC to see them). There was a Weird Stuff just over the road that was pretty fun to browse, in which I once found a Vic-20 cartridge with one of my own games on it.
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Oct 8, 2019 03:28
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Chinatown posted:the one in San Marcos, CA is Atlantis themed and when it opened they had arcing electricity running up wires in glass obelisks. it ruled. The one in Fremont had a Tesla coil that would go all crazy every like 15 minutes, it owned
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Oct 8, 2019 04:03
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Nooner posted:The one in Fremont had a Tesla coil that would go all crazy every like 15 minutes, it owned hell yeah that rules 
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Oct 8, 2019 04:05
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When I lived in California we would pretty regularly go to the Egyptian themed Frys. It was cool as hell. The one I have here isn't themed unfortunately. I went there pretty recently for computer parts. I was building a new computer and figured I should simplify shipping get the case, PSU, and a few other parts at Frys while I had a really good coupon on me. While it wasnt exactly deserted, there was definitely bored employees that were more than happy to do SOMETHING for me. This is the best case I've ever owned and it cost me about 15 bucks.
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Oct 8, 2019 04:10
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Snow Cone Capone posted:plus a decently-sized video game section, and a big-rear end counter where 2 nerds tell you how best to pimp out your gaming rig. So do any of the big box stores have nerds and parts for helping people RGB up their toasters and refrigerators yet? Ground. Floor.
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Oct 8, 2019 04:22
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stinky ox posted:There was a Weird Stuff just over the road that was pretty fun to browse, in which I once found a Vic-20 cartridge with one of my own games on it. holy gently caress it's you. I loved the poo poo out of AotMC.
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Oct 8, 2019 04:25
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The best store was actually printed on paper Too bad the “images that prompted your sexual awakening” thread isn’t still around
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Oct 8, 2019 21:29
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DiggityDoink posted:Fry's has sucked for at least 10 years now. The last time I went there was like 2 years ago to find an SSD because Amazon was out of the one I was looking for. All of their motherboards were knockoffs of knockoffs, the GPUs were names I had never heard of and it took them an hour just to find a Windows 10 USB stick. haha Fry's has a porn aisle? What do they sell? Porno DVDs? Why? 
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Oct 8, 2019 21:35
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Is there ever going to be any backlash against online shopping? I feel like we're at the point now where the only brick and mortar survivors are gonna be walmart and target. There is so much empty retail space just rotting away.
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Oct 8, 2019 21:54
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Leon Einstein posted:Is there ever going to be any backlash against online shopping? I feel like we're at the point now where the only brick and mortar survivors are gonna be walmart and target. I personally can't believe clothing stores are going away. I can't wrap my head around people buying clothes without trying them on. Bookstores made a comeback. I think people are going to get fed up with retail being dead at some point. It's unfathomable to me that there's no more toy stores.
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Oct 8, 2019 22:04
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:I personally can't believe clothing stores are going away. I can't wrap my head around people buying clothes without trying them on. Even local niche stores that have been around my whole life are closing.
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Oct 8, 2019 22:09
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Leon Einstein posted:The next generation of shoppers won't miss b&m because they won't have ever known them. I feel old and out of touch pining for the way things used to be. Explain people in their twenties and thirties being into vinyl records then
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Oct 8, 2019 22:24
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Supreme Allah posted:MicroCenter
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Oct 8, 2019 22:30
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:Explain people in their twenties and thirties being into vinyl records then That they buy online. Vinyl is great, it's a way to experience music rather than just putting it on as background noise imo.
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Oct 8, 2019 22:32
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:I personally can't believe clothing stores are going away. I can't wrap my head around people buying clothes without trying them on. I spent half the day trying to help my parents settle on a new laptop for my mom In the end I told them I was stepping back entirely until they went to Microcenter and looked at the laptops on display and loving figure out if she wants an 11" or 13" screen jesus loving chriiiiiiiist
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Oct 8, 2019 22:32
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I loved going to the San Jose FRYS because it was Egyptian themed and the Fresno one because it was World's Fair themed with a Tesla coil and stuff in it. The worst one I've ever been to my entire life is the Tempe, AZ FRYS. Golf themed? Ho-boy, somebody stop me (from sleeping).
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Oct 8, 2019 22:45
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I have three different Fry's within 20 minutes of me because the Bay Area is loving stupid. They all suck. Thanks for reading.
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Oct 8, 2019 23:23
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MageMage posted:The worst one I've ever been to my entire life is the Tempe, AZ FRYS. Golf themed? Ho-boy, somebody stop me (from sleeping). It didn't even have a theme until a few years ago I will miss Fry's. I got the parts for at least a half dozen computers from there over the years. Last time I tried to get a motherboard from there it wasn't in stock (nor was anything else) even though the website said it was. gently caress that.
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Oct 8, 2019 23:25
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I bought a graphics card at the Fry's in Burbank that was 1950's sci fi themed maybe 12-13 years ago. I asked one guy if they had the card I was looking for in stock, and he went off to check. Apparently another sales guy overheard and knew for a fact they did, so he just went over and grabbed one for me, and started printing out his commission barcode for it. As he's finishing this up the first guy comes back with another of the same card, sees this happening, and gets into a screaming fight with the other guy. I decided to sidestep this and just grabbed first guy's box of the desk and walked off. Second guy then apparently rapidly printed out his own barcode thing, chased me down half-way to the register, and tried to convince me to swap the boxes. I finally agreed to get him to go away, then tore his barcode thing off and just had the cashier scan the bare box. That's my story about my edgy 16 year old self smugly screwing some poor if admittedly annoying sales guy out of $5 of commission or whatever. I know, go me.
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Oct 8, 2019 23:48
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Frys was OK, but no Incredible Universe.
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Leon Einstein posted:That they buy online. Vinyl is great, it's a way to experience music rather than just putting it on as background noise imo. I don't know about your area, but record shops are one of the very vibrant parts of my local scene. But I'm sure it helps that I live in a very large artsy college town.
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