Re: OT going to Fry's Electronics


FREDO wrote:
> We are going to Fry's Electronics!
> My wife lets me go when I've been very good!
> Man I love that store!
> It is so huge!
> It even has a coffee and sandwich grille inside.
> The selection of puters and other neat stuff is so vast!!!
>
> Fredo

Good Luck, :-)

IMO, Fry's has taken the big box theme just a bit too far. There is way
too much of way too much stuff in there. The choices are overwhelming.
We've got one in South Seattle, and I think some of the folks who went
there for the Grand Opening a couple of years ago are still missing.
Once in a while, when shopping there, I see that the search and rescue
helicopter still passes by trying to find them. I wish they'd fly just
a bit closer to the ceiling, the rotor wash ruffles what's left of my
hair.

Then there's the confusing issue of the store's hours: The sign on the
door makes no particular reference whether the 9PM closing time applies
to all three time zones spanned by the building.

The aggravating aspect of shopping at Fry's is that consumers have a
natural tendency to equate huge selection and warehouse merchandising
with low, low, prices. Caveat Emptor at Fry's. They'll take out a full
page, four color ad in the Sunday paper and advertise prices that not
only aren't "deals", they are well above average for the same or
similar merchandise sold elsewhere. But oh well, somebody has to pay
the salaries for all the public employees in the several small towns
contained entirely withing the average Fry's Electronics store.

.

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