Nuked Fry’s electronics is one of the last big brick-and-mortar electronics store chains in the United States. Local broadcaster KRON4 has confirmed that the chain is permanently closing nationwide.
The company’s Facebook page is also gone and its Twitter feed has been set to private. It was public earlier this evening, though it had n’t tweeted in quite some time.
If you have ever visited a fry’s anytime in the past two to three years, none of this will come as a surprise. If you’ve ever visited one of the fry’s anywhere, none will come a surprise.
The family-owned business had been pushed to the brink of extinction by online retailers like Amazon, Newegg and more. By 2019, what used to be a paradise of gadgets, computers, components, video games, audio equipment and appliances had turned into ghost warehouses.
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Samsung stopped doing business due to unpaid bills. Fry’s had eliminated most full-time roles even before the pandemic hit.
Youtube star bitwit conducted a video investigation that showed how the once-great stores had sunk to. The company shipped extra inventory to its Las Vegas store just in case journalists stopped by during CES 2020.
The company’s egyptian-themed, pyramid shaped store in Campbell, abruptly closed last November. Many big tech startups still do business in the heart of Silicon Valley.
In 1990, one of the first stores was laid out like the insides of a computer. The Egyptian store had fake columns, mummies and sarcophagi. Laptops were laid out on huge stone slabs held up by statues of black Panthers.
Fry’s electronics at Burbank, CA, was opened in 1995. There are other locations in the U.S..
The company’s Black Friday doorbusters were a Silicon Valley event, too, with lines around the block for $ 200 laptops and $ 60 routers. I wholeheartedly agree – I’d even grab some food, either a packet of discount astronaut ice cream or one of the many, many selections from their tremendous candy shelves attached to the checkout line.
I tried my first VR headset at a fry’s, long before Oculus came around. It was my first taste of Final Fantasy VII on a demo PlayStation as well.
The most magical place in the universe: the fry’s store in Campbell. The fry”s store is located in Campbell.
Fry was well-known for taking product returns, slapping on a discount label, and sticking them right back on the shelf. The company also tried to check every item against your receipt as you left.
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Reports surfaced that fry’s corporate headquarters may be replaced with an office campus. Reports that the store might have been replaced with a campus.
This news is more of a nostalgia trigger than a real loss, but for me, it feels like we’re at the end of the era of gadget stores. Over the years, we’ve lost Radio Shack, toys R us, the sharper image and Brookstone, the Bose stores, Circuit City, the Microsoft store and more.
