My Frys Electronics Experience

[Mae Dean]

Archive Sensei: The Fry's in Renton almost made me drop to my knees in joy. I must tell you - that store is NOT representative of any of the other Frys' I've been to. It has CARPET. And TILE. They actually went out of their way to make it look like a decent store... that alone impressed the shit out of me. And you're right.... it's about 100 times easier to find a helpful employee than around here.

See, the Sacramento Fry's essentially resembles an emptied-out warehouse. No carpet, just cement flooring. It's like they're not even trying. And some of the sections are laid out so back-asswards that it can be a pain in the ass to find things. Believe me... the Renton Fry's plays a part in my desire to move up there.

[Infin8Cyn]

You Lie!!! YOU LIE!!!

[kaiju01]

Question: Do all Fry's Electronics have the "50's monsters attack/sci-fi" themes? Or is this just the store in Burbank? Because I love it. There is a UFO crashed into the front of the Burbank store for starters.

[Deacon]

I've never seen or heard of that, kaiju01, so it's probably unique to your store. I assume Fry's is a franchise with independent owners who can spruce things up however they think will bring in business, within certain limits.

[StruckingFuggle]

Actually, I think Frys has this gimick where each (or most) of their stores have some sort of theme. That one is "50s monster / sci-fi" theme, the one here in Austin has a giant piano in the facade and its 'design theme' is "music"

[Tomoro]

The theme is unique to the store. Not all stores have them though, instead being declared works in progress, such as the one here in San Diego.

[Nukinblackmage]

The Fry's here in Austin, while having a music theme, is very nice. The people are pretty smart. I've never been sent to a wrong section...then again I know where I want to go 90% of the time I'm in there soo....never really have to ask employee's where to go. They also have tile and carpet in a few places. Pretty nice place.

And you know those "Work In Progress" buildings are never going to get spruced up.

[Rileyrat]

Damn you guys and your Fry's. All I have here is CompUSA AHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

[StruckingFuggle]

Ugh. CompUSA. I worked there once. Been sour towards the whole corporation ever since.

[Tomoro]

They sold my sister a bum motherboard once. It died after a month or two. Bad thing was she tried to blame it on me.

[xX Heartagram Xx]

I usually go to a Circuit City for all my electronic shyts... -___-;

I wish they had a Frys in New Jersey.. I wouldn't really care if it looked like an emptied out warehouse or not, I just want it to be sort of... not-customer-filled. It's just FLOCKING with obese and Jersey people.

[gravity]

Odd, the four times I've been to the Fry's in Renton (it's on my way to school), I've NEVER been able to recieve any help of any kind.

It took me, my younger brother, and my friend a full hour to find what we needed, and then find that the Mac section is nearly completely out of stock, and had to place an emergency cell phone call to a friend for him to buy us the parts needed at the Mac store on his way to school.

Personally, shopping at Fry's is a dread experience for people who actually want to get stuff done, or have classes/someplace they need to be sometime later in the day.

The fact that the lady at the checkout counter claimed that my younger brother must have a fake ID (he was writing a check for some anime), and going on and on about it, was very rude too, especially since I then had to call the bank FOR her and get confirmation that yes, my brother existed. (The ID was not fake, either. It was a driver's permit and his old HS photo ID. Those two shown at the same time confirm his image identity and his legal identity, or something like that.)

[OniNeko]

...

Fry's needs to hire me.
And pay to have me move to someplace that actually has a Fry's nearby.

[Brim Mar]

[quote="Greg Dean";p="435429"]Archive Sensei: The Fry's in Renton almost made me drop to my knees in joy. I must tell you - that store is NOT representative of any of the other Frys' I've been to. It has CARPET. And TILE. They actually went out of their way to make it look like a decent store... that alone impressed the shit out of me. And you're right.... it's about 100 times easier to find a helpful employee than around here.

See, the Sacramento Fry's essentially resembles an emptied-out warehouse. No carpet, just cement flooring. It's like they're not even trying. And some of the sections are laid out so back-asswards that it can be a pain in the ass to find things. Believe me... the Renton Fry's plays a part in my desire to move up there. [/quote]

This is what ours sounds like. It has a cafe in the middle, and there is tile, and carpet. This place even smells nice, I think they scent the air, or something.

[quote="gravity";p="435535"](The ID was not fake, either. It was a driver's permit and his old HS photo ID. Those two shown at the same time confirm his image identity and his legal identity, or something like that.)[/quote]

No, not really. A store has the right to reject the check if a valid form of ID is shown, and a driving permit really isn't valid, especially for checks. I believe it is Drivers Liscenses, State IDs, Birth Certificates, School IDs, Passports, and a few other ones.
Atleast at our store.
People always get pissed off like its our fault that they dont know our rules.

[Infin8Cyn]

Rileyrat,
I know exactly how you felt. I had to take advantage of a business trip out to Phoenix to escape the CompUSA here.

The Fry's out there however, was massive. It did not have a theme, but it had everything. From CD's to $5,000+ Oscilliscopes on the shelf. It also had something like ~48 checkout registers? Immense f*cking place. The workers running around were morons: "No sir, the F828 (Sony's new 8mp pro-sumer camera) will be out-dated here in a year or two." and such, but yeah... It Ruled.