Is Fry's Electronics going OOB?

RS250 Chester

RS250 Chester

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I need a HD for my NAS that went out. I want to replace it ASAP, so I went to the Fry's website. Nothing was in stock for Fremont, no 1TB, 2TB, 4TB....just nothing. Expanded search for all stores, same results.

Decided to go to the store myself....not one single hard drive on the shelf. All the motherboards are gone, not one single item of networking hardware. Wow.

The receipt checker at the door said "so quick." Told her there's noting here and she just laughed.
 
ctwo

ctwo

Merely Rhetorical
NorCalBusa said:
I heard a rumor there might be some serious shopping starting next week, but I don't know for sure...
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There might have been shopping but it wasn't at Fry's!

Went to the Sunnyvale store on Black Friday. Parking lot about 10% full, just like their shelves. :wtf
 
bluegixxer600

bluegixxer600

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I went into the Fry's in Roseville and the shelves were very empty. Zero car audio stuff in stock and not much of anything else. Pretty sad sight.
 
Bay Arean

Bay Arean

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I can't figure out why they are still paying rents and all other costs associated with having open doors and employees. It's weird.
 
wazzuFreddo

wazzuFreddo

WuTang is 4 the children
Letting employees get board so they quit and don’t have to do layoffs? :dunno

I can’t figure it either
 
RS250 Chester

RS250 Chester

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Bowling4Bikes said:
bizarre! what do they have to gain by leaving their shelves bare for the holidays? yeah, sure a restructure is happening but damn...make yourselves some money along the way too, ya dolts.
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I've worked on liquidation projects, I don't think their shelves are bare by choice. It wasn't that long ago that Fry's had a lot of inventory, some of the stuff was old and slow-moving, like older networking equipment. But even the older inventory is gone. To me, this suggests distributors took back their products because of non-payment. Even if they are moving towards a consignment inventory, the distributors would like some guarantees the company is healthy. If they suddenly fold, their inventory could be stuck in the store for a while.
 
ctwo

ctwo

Merely Rhetorical
RS250 Chester said:
To me, this suggests distributors took back their products because of non-payment.
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:thumbup Vendors started getting pissed and wanted payments before shipping. I remember not being able to get things because of the shenanigans.
 
NorCalBusa

NorCalBusa

Member #294
"We are switching to consignment" is now "multiple stores closed and sold".

Closed;
- Anaheim
- Woodland Hills
- Palo Alto (been coming for years)
- Midwest (read a story a couple days ago, its becoming a multi-location car dealership's headquarters)
- Georgia store a month or two ago

All of our BS meters were pegged for the last year...
 
auntiebling

auntiebling

megalomaniacal troglodyte
Staff member
That palo altonstorenwas a staple of "I doknt want to go back to work yet" lunches when I worked in the area. We just wandered around and loitered at the magazine rack.
 
matjam

matjam

Crusty old UNIX engineer
I've given up on the concord store. They have nothing there of any use anymore.

I go to best buy in PH for stuff these days.
 
mean dad

mean dad

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Went in there a few weeks ago for some small adapter and the whole store was pretty damn empty and sad.
 
E

ejv

Untitled work in progress
I went to the Brokaw store on Monday looking for thumb drives. What they had was shockingly sad. Most of the floor space was empty or filled with things like perfume and exercise equipment. Not sure what they are doing but they don't appear to be trying to run a retail store. Ended up at a Staples to get the thumb drives instead.
 
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