NorCalBusa
Member #294
Hearing most all the store shelves are bare...and three dozen registers staffed by two people.
I was in the Concord store several weeks ago and it looks like they aren't restocking when stuff runs out. :dunno It's been like that for a few years. It's like a sad shell of what it used to be. All happened after they changed their employee compensation scheme.
Naw I blame amazon and online buying, they shutdown circuit city, CompUSA, good guys, and my local bestbuy downsized to 1/2 the floorspace to split with PetSmart, and magnolia HiFi had its own store but now moved into bb with atiny showroom now, so naturally Fry's is next :thumbup
I don't see any benefit to the four founders to close shop. They've always run the business quite lean, extracting everything possible from their employees and suppliers.
BTW, John Fry is a mathematician: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Institute_of_Mathematics
I had some unique experiences with Fry's.
My Dad did the Architecture for their first store on Lakeside Drive.
He used to do a lot of the the brothers Dad's Fry's super markets.
Dad Fry gave a store to each son when they graduated college or there abouts. The sons were into electronics and sold the stores to start Fry's Electronics. Heard it pissed Dad off! :laughing
I got to do there first store.. Palo Alto, then Fremont, then Sunnyvale, Malibu and then got the shafty from the developer on the Campbell store.
Palo Alto had their corp offices in the adjacent suite and it had a full professional Bball court in it too. Lots of professional athletes went to play pick up games there. It was fun because each store had a theme and we worked with a movie set designer on concepts and then had to figure out how to implement the magic into a real world build.
Come to think of it I have not heard their ads on the radio for a while.
"Your best buys are alwwwwwwwwwwwwwways at Fry's"
i think they also have their own private golf course in the morgan hill gilroy area. also a girl i went to highschool with is married to one of the sons.
Didn't the Merch head guy clean their clock a decade or so ago- embezzled money for gambling debt, some sort of vendor rebate deal that got diverted to, well, him. Got busted when a subordinate went trash can diving and found a paper trail.
Bud- do John/Randy own the real estate? Now there'd be some gold...
Worked at store #9 San Jose/Brokaw Rd. many moons ago. Helped set up the Sunnyvale store with the tile floors off Arques
So there’s a lot of essentially wasted space in those stores now. They’d be a lot better off in stores that are maybe half as big as they are now. Because there’s still a use for brick and mortars like them. Sure, some people are willing to trust Amazon for a 60” tv. I don’t think I will. If I see the box is smooshed on a corner in a store? I get another one. Not a luxury you get when you order online.
Bro, you need to buy a TV from amazon then! :laughing
I got two on a prime day because I wasn’t sure which had a better display. I kept one returned the other. Both came in great shape. Return policy was FREE. How they make that work, no idea!!!
Didn't the Merch head guy clean their clock a decade or so ago- embezzled money for gambling debt, some sort of vendor rebate deal that got diverted to, well, him. Got busted when a subordinate went trash can diving and found a paper trail.
Bud- do John/Randy own the real estate? Now there'd be some gold...
Return policy was FREE. How they make that work, no idea!!!
Used to go to Fry's. Now I go to Central Computers.