• There has been a recent cluster of spammers accessing BARFer accounts and posting spam. To safeguard your account, please consider changing your password. It would be even better to take the additional step of enabling 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) on your BARF account. Read more here.

Is Fry's Electronics going OOB?

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.
 
NorCalBusa said:
I heard a rumor there might be some serious shopping starting next week, but I don't know for sure...
Click to expand...

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
 
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.
 
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.
 
Letting employees get board so they quit and don’t have to do layoffs? :dunno

I can’t figure it either
 
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.
Click to expand...

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.
 
"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...
 
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.
 
Concord store's not on the list, I'll swing by sometime soon and report status.
 
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.
 
Went in there a few weeks ago for some small adapter and the whole store was pretty damn empty and sad.
 
I just go to Fry's now to use the restrooms , Lol
 
SuperMotoD said:
I just go to Fry's now to use the restrooms , Lol
Click to expand...

So it's a library now?

I guess all that's needed now is some free internet and bums.
 
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.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top