Can anyone explain how Fry's isn't on the east coast?

[GuitarDaddy]

I pass by a frys twice a day on the way back and forth from work and I rarely ever stop by there. I buy most all my part online, I find except for the ocassional combo deal or HHD deal I can get better prices sans tax online and I absolutely hate the customer service and store layout at frys. It is however nice to have as an emergency stop if you need a cable or something and can't wait a couple of days

 

[hx009]

Originally posted by: fire400
management.

screwegg.com (newegg.com) it's just a funny name someone else called 'em. neweggz takin' all their sales. tigerdirect.com, directron, mwave..

well, you got the big players and the big players who play it hard.

if you wanna do e-business, you need to go all out if you're willin' to xpand.

trust me, it's the people. people run companies, and if one company is doing well, good. if one company isn't, that's too darn bad. fact, run by people.

management.

amen.

What?

 

[erub]

Originally posted by: fatpat268
I don't have a frys, microcenter, or CompUSA (not that it matters anymore). All I have in town is Circuit City and Best Buy, both of which apply to the lowest common denominator. I wish a Fry's would pop up, but instead they're building more Targets, more Circuit Citys, Possibly another best buy, and they finished a new WM Super Center. We have no diversity when it comes to stores where I live.

To get to the nearest fry's for me, I have to go to Austin, about an 1.5 hour drive. If I want to go to Microcenter, it's a 3 hour drive to dallas. Bleh. There's so much new stuff being built around my city and neighboring cities... just nothing "new." Just more of the same stuff.

College Station?

 

[thomsbrain]

Fry's is a private company owned by one family (started out as a grocery store in Concord, CA). I'm sure they do good business, but they're aren't exactly Walmart, and they don't have the enormous funds that going public would bring, so I'm not surprised to see them be more reserved in their expansion.

In the meantime, they do have a global website.

Not sure why you'd be so hot to get them, though. Newegg and local mom and pop joints are generally a million times better in price and service. Fry's is like Best Buy, only dirtier, less likely to accept your return, more likely to sell you refurbished junk, and with a Radio Shack thrown into the mix for the electric odds and ends.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: thomsbrain
Not sure why you'd be so hot to get them, though. Newegg and local mom and pop joints are generally a million times better in price and service. Fry's is like Best Buy, only dirtier, less likely to accept your return, more likely to sell you refurbished junk, and with a Radio Shack thrown into the mix for the electric odds and ends.

From time to time Fry's has some great deals in their B&M stores that makes me wish they had stores here. And even Best Buy has some sweet deals occasionally, too (got a $300 Gateway laptop from them that I use all the time).

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: wwswimming
i think Fry's started by the Fry family, who ran a supermarket in Palo Alto, then
started an electronics store in a railroad warehouse about 2 miles southeast of
Stanford.

then it grew. and grew.

i think they're careful about expansion. i don't think they're publicly held,
they don't have to worry about impressing investors.

Google it. First one was in Concord.

Edit: first supermarket, that is.

 

[bonkers325]

Originally posted by: fire400

Originally posted by: Phokus

Originally posted by: Leros
Technology in general seems to be west coast oriented.

Edit: 6000th post

Yeah, us East Coasters still use oil lamps and live in caves

what the fvck. hell no.

east side has manhattan, boston, ny city 'n atlanta.

don't forget MIT?

but then they got silicon valley on the west and plus Jpn is closer to Cali..

oh well, we got Chicago and Murderapolis and 'n what else, um, .. and, the sucky Vikings. lol

manhattan and NYC are the same place

 

[TXHokie]

Fry's for me is like the mall for my wife, I just go there and wander around forever.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: irishScott

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: fire400
management.

screwegg.com (newegg.com) it's just a funny name someone else called 'em. neweggz takin' all their sales. tigerdirect.com, directron, mwave..

well, you got the big players and the big players who play it hard.

if you want wanna do e-business, you need to go all out if you're willin' to xpand.

trust me, it's the people. people run companies, and if one company is doing well, good. if one company isn't, that's too darn bad. fact, run by people.

management.

amen.

... what?

What x2.

x3 Drunk much?

What you say?! x1

 

[ultimatebob]

They should really put a Fry's in the NYC area. That area is filled with geeks thanks to "silicon alley" and the dozen or so IBM locations around there.

That area used to have a lot of CompUSA stores, but now that they're all closing I see a huge business opportunity there.

 

[fatpat268]

Originally posted by: erub

Originally posted by: fatpat268
I don't have a frys, microcenter, or CompUSA (not that it matters anymore). All I have in town is Circuit City and Best Buy, both of which apply to the lowest common denominator. I wish a Fry's would pop up, but instead they're building more Targets, more Circuit Citys, Possibly another best buy, and they finished a new WM Super Center. We have no diversity when it comes to stores where I live.

To get to the nearest fry's for me, I have to go to Austin, about an 1.5 hour drive. If I want to go to Microcenter, it's a 3 hour drive to dallas. Bleh. There's so much new stuff being built around my city and neighboring cities... just nothing "new." Just more of the same stuff.

College Station?

Not quite... I was there when I went to A&M for a year, but now I live in Killeen, next to Ft. Hood. But now that I think about it, Austin and Dallas are about the same distance from both College Station and Killeen.