Really? That Fry's wasn't bigger than my local Costco? That seems impossible. Perhaps it's because half of a Costco's store has ceiling-height shelving units that make it seem a little more crowded.

Okay, well if it's not bigger in square footage, there's no denying that they at least carry many multiples more products than Costco.


I believe I went to the Baseline one. I might go to the other one today, as I think it's actually closer. I can't tell you how irritated I am that there are two of these stores within 10 miles of each other, and the closest one to my home in Virginia I think is in New York.


Yeah, when I went there to visit my wife's family, it certainly seemed like they were still busy building that area up. I wouldn't be surprised if you had some kind of computer store in the future, though. Still, it's annoying.

I do think that brick and mortar stores have a place, even in the computer industry. They just have to be the size of Fry's to do it. I order almost all my electronics from Newegg or Amazon, but I still frequent my local Micro Center all the time. There's a ton I dislike about that store, though. It just seems more...disheveled than Fry's.

When I go to Fry's today, one of the things I want to check out is their price on RAM. That was one of the things that made me stop going to CompUSA, which was that they charged obscene amounts for RAM. They'd charge for generic twice what you could pay online for name brand. It didn't give me much faith in the rest of the store.

So yeah, Bitt, lets start letter writing campaigns to get Fry's stores in our areas. I think we both live in places that could benefit from a store like this.


They still do, don't they? My wife and I went to the Suns game last night (they wiped the floor with Portland - Woot!), and they constantly had ads for Fry's Food Stores with the same logo. I thought it was such a funny secondary business, but I didn't know it was the other way around!