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Lambert posted:You do realize you can simply fill a glass with milk and dunk your Oreos that way? This a product designed to be thrown away after purchase. OH WORD ?!?!?
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Balliver Shagnasty posted:Fry's has a couple of stores in metro Atlanta. I should just man up, fight my way past the motorized hellscape that is I-285 and indulge in some failing retail porn. Doorbuster aisle looking good 
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Fry's is seriously just too drat big. It came from a bygone era where computers and tech were new and exciting with lots of variation and also a little complicated. You could go to Fry's and browse a bunch of different motherboards from literally 30 different manufacturers. All kinds of weird niche PCs, goofy PC peripherals like fan speed control boxes and giant gently caress-off Antec EATX cases that could store 4 CD-R drives. It was a destination store that you had to experience. You could head out on a Saturday and just spend hours browsing neat stuff. Now computers and tech are commodified, you can't even open up half the PCs out there without ungluing something. There's like 3 motherboard manufacturers, everything is plug and play and tech isn't the domain of the geeky anymore. The people who used to depend on Fry's have a million of options online now so you have to just put out filler crap to pad out the shelves. Once boxed software disappeared they replaced the section with random toys. When CDs and DVDs shrank they replaced the aisles with As Seen On TV Stuff. When stand along cameras and camcorders went away they replaced them with loving camping tents. If they shuttered their wal-mart sized stores and replaced them with stores the size of a medium-sized grocery store (like Microcenter has), they could probably carve out a niche for the geeks and local b2b and still be successful. They won't because the company is a poorly run shitshow and will go down in spectacular fashion. I'm pretty sure the website will still stick around though, it's probably half the company revenue at this point.
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Here's the hard drive aisle at the "flagship" Sunnyvale location
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The Fry’s in Deluth, Georgia suddenly closed without warning. Not on the Fry’s site anymore either. 
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Dec 5, 2019 02:43
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Home Depot still has a lot of knowledge employees because it attracts a lot of retirees and people who used to be tradesmen and just want something to do for a couple hours a few days a week. HD also loves them because they don't have to pay them poo poo because they're getting paid from social security or their pensions anyways.
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Fry's isn't dead yet but they're getting worse. This is the laptop section
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HootTheOwl posted:The Fry's by me looks like a normal big box store, and the one I went to in California looked like it was a train Depot with a steam train crashing through the wall to fall on customers who entered. That's the Burbank one, it's probably the most famous store. They have a Hollywood/Science Fiction theme and have all kinds of weird poo poo inside https://weirdcitylosangeles.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/frys-electronics-burbank/
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Invalid Validation posted:I lived closish to the one that was Alice in Wonderland. I’m sure they got a lot of touristy traffic too. Woodland Hills, that one was cool. The busiest store was San Diego until Las Vegas opened up. I wonder how they're doing.
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PT6A posted:Also, you really need to check prices on Amazon. I recently got into knitting and I started out buying yarn and needles and poo poo on Amazon. The availability is poo poo, the filters are poo poo, the prices are anywhere from 150%-200% what they are at another site (which actually categorises things in a non-hateful way so you can find them!). The $6 shipping versus free Prime shipping doesn’t matter because you aren’t get hooped by the insane Amazon prices. It's this, Amazon hasn't been price competitive for a number of years now (at best they'll just pricematch whatever brick and mortar has it on sale) and for a ton of stuff they're way more expensive. 3rd party reseller have taken advantage of our laziness and drop ship poo poo from Walmart or Ross or Dollar Tree at 500% markups because people don't know any better. There's been a few articles out last year that were just like "I bought something on Amazon but then I discovered that it was drop shipped from somewhere cheaper! How not to get screwed!" Like this idiot who overspent $20 (!!!) on buying tea quote:A few weeks ago, I added some chai tea to my cart on Amazon, clicked the buy button, and didn’t think anything more of it. Or this guy who spent 2x as much on diapers on Amazon that came from Walmart quote:When my wife and I shop together, that typically means that she sends me a link to buy something on Amazon. That was also the case with these pull ups that she wanted me to order for our two-year-old. FCKGW fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Jan 9, 2020 |
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Retrowave Joe posted:Small Business Saturday. 
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Speaking of which the XFL premiers today.
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Mooseontheloose posted:And XFL has no union. They do have paid medical which the WWE doesn't even provide though
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Best Buy has been cheaper than Amazon on nearly all electronics they carry and their appliance prices are better than most other retailers. They also price match anyone I’ve asked them to. I don’t think Best Buy gets enough credit for aggressively changing their store structure to accommodate the internet age.
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Mister Facetious posted:I thought their current strategy was doing the Amazon/Newegg thing of letting third-party sellers on their platform and (presumably) taking a cut of every purchase. Best Buy doesn’t have any 3rd party sellers on their website. Walmart does which has absolutely destroyed their website.
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less than three posted:It's all assembled, they're more like Wayfair if it was a physical store. Wayfair also cut 550 jobs last week which shocking only represents 3% of their workforce. Why the gently caress does Wayfair need 17,000 workers?!?!? https://www.boston.com/news/business/2020/02/13/wayfair-layoffs
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I've talked about it before but my local regional mall is loving packed at all times and always busy (it even has two movie theaters and the only Rainforest Cafe left on the west coast!) but I think it's more a case of it being built at the right place at the right time and catering more to middle/lower class shopping habits with outlet stores and discount retailers. Here's the anchor stores: Dave and Busters Nordstrom Rack Restoration Hardware Uniqlo Marshalls Burlington
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Feb 24, 2020 18:23
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Another Fry's is closing down, this time it's the Anaheim store I spent 8 years at  
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PT6A posted:Pirating is more or less dead because it turns out people's laziness often outstrips their greed. Uh, pirating is actually on the upswing with the fragmentation of media streaming services and the ease with pirate stream services. It may seem dead because it's evolved from downloads to illegal streams now. Torrenting gave way to Chinese Android boxes you can buy from Facebook ads running Kodi pirate movie streams. My parents even bought some random box so they could get free movies. The top paid apps on the AppleTV app store are all IPTV apps for playing pirated sports streams.
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JustJeff88 posted:As someone who doesn't really watch films, I'm surprised by the France thing. That sounds like a blatantly corporate protectionist policy in a country that generally has better consumer protections than the US or the UK. As an example, French tv/mobile/data/internet is usually much cheaper than the US or Canada. I share an office with a Frenchmen and he has brought it up on more than one occasion. They're special events that you invite you and your buddies over to watch and eat and get drunk and everyone chips some cash in so it's only like $10 a head. If you're a single dude watching a $100 PPV alone in your own house then lol
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pseudanonymous posted:There's like no way that malls don't totally go under after this. And the few companies that own and operate them. And then the companies which service them suffer and something has to be done with those commercial spaces. Hopefully, cities will just exercise eminent domain and turn them into giant farmers markets and community clinics and stuff, one-stop shopping for things people actually need and should be provided by a government. Solaris 2.0 posted:Turn that land into apartments / housing with mixed retail / shops / restaurants The original creator of the shopping mall envisioned them as being a "Main Street for isolated suburban communities" so returning back to their original intention would be pretty dope.
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Horseshoe theory posted:Aren't all of the big console and game companies basically trying to cut out GameStop as being the middleman? The resale market has essentially been destroyed with the rise of digital downloads so yeah.
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Mister Facetious posted:fixed. Kijiji/craiglist is still strong No, I mean the entire resale market. Are people still buying physical media as much these days? Can you even buy these massive games on disc or do they just come with download codes in the box? The boxed PC game market is gone now and it’s a matter of time before consoles follow suite.
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My local abandoned Circuit City that turns into a Spirit Halloween every October has suddenly turned into a store that exclusively sells nothing but medical face masks.
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NaanViolence posted:gently caress I hope Ross survives Ross is Dollar General but for clothing and home goods, they’ll be fine.
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Golbez posted:Remember around the new year when Fry's was on death watch? It's been several decades since then, how is Fry's doing? Not great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZIGPS-JEh4 The store I spent 8 years working at closed earlier this year. The Sacramento store just posted a "Temporarily Closed" sign on Monday, doubt they're coming back. Very slow death, not a total sudden collapse. Probably because they're a private company so there's no board looking to load debt, cash out and bail. Kind of refreshing actually to see a retail chain die naturally, slowly and with dignity. Don't see that much anymore. FCKGW fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Aug 26, 2020 |
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PurpleButterfly posted:As someone who grew up in that area and has many fond memories of that mall and those theaters, this makes me happy. A small group of us from my junior high even had a year-end celebration at that very Rainforest Cafe. Now that it's been almost 7 months: Mall still busy? Anything changed? Also, out of curiosity, which one of those anchor stores took over the spaces that used to be the Virgin Megastore and Sam Ash Music? Sam Ash is surprisingly still there. H&M took over Virgin and expanded to include both sides of the racetrack. I haven't been there since corona hit but I don't see it slowing down anytime soon.
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As someone who doesn't game and has only been in a Gamestop once or twice in my life, isn't the slow death of Gamestop just related to the fall of physical media in general? PC games were first and console is quickly completing that transition. If you main bread and butter is reselling used media and then people are buying less media in the first place, doesn't that just spell the death of your business no matter what you do?
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HootTheOwl posted:SO microsoft wants their own applestores and gamestop already has the storefronts? That article is literally just a Microsoft press release, I wouldn't read too much into it.
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