I love Fry's!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

We have an OLD HP LaserJet 4 printer (purchased in 1994), and my laptop doesn't have a parallel port for it. I was able to find a USB-parallel port cable at Fry's today, so now I can use my LaserJet with my laptop! WOOHOO!! :applause:

[Clovis Sangrail]

1. give it time

you'll learn to loathe them, you just haven't been going long enough

[AndyTiedye]

2. Visit a CompUSA. Then You Will APPRECIATE Fry's A Lot More

[Clovis Sangrail]

4. too true

I do hate Fry's but they're significantly more useful to me than CompUSA.

[lavenderdiva]

3. I was just there today buying a hand-held blender...

for less than I could get it at Dillards, Linens n Things, or Bed, Bath & Beyond... Excellent!

[Gormy Cuss]

5. What kind of name is "Fry's" for an electronics store anyway? n/t

[Clovis Sangrail]

6. the kind where you best buys are /nt

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[Shakespeare]

7. Their Burbank, CA store is a TRIP!

The facade has an alien spacecraft "crashing" into it, complete with life-sized aliens walking around. Inside, there are wax museum-esque vignettes of a 1950s gas station, which competes with still more aliens, which competes with a bizarre circus theme. It's like sensory overload when you go in there, and it always cracked me up.

[Clovis Sangrail]

8. they all have a theme

the one in W. San Fernando Valley is Alice in Wonderland
giant cards hanging from the ceiling, topiaries, etc.

the one in Redondo is a Tahitian theme
grass huts etc.

the one on Hamilton in San Jose is an egyptian tomb

the one on Brokaw is an Aztec or Toltec type theme

the original Fry's was a computer theme
input/output for the doors etc

I have no idea what the one in Sacramento is trying to be (or the one in Menlo Park or the one in Fremont)

I've worked in tech for years and I travel all over the state, so I've seem a lot of them.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

9. I've never noticed a theme

I go to the one in Irving, Texas. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough.

[Clovis Sangrail]

11. the ones outside of Ca might not have themes

they merged with someplace called Tech Universe or something like that a while back.
It gave them a bunch of stores outside of Ca.

[puerco-bellies]

10. Burbank is Alien invasion, Manhattan Beach is Jungle, Anahiem is well

In the O.C.