Topic: Fred Meyer got rid of their electronics department

[ShyGuy]

eCommerce strikes again. 

Between this and the Hastings chain closing last year, I'm feeling that I am going to have to destroy the entire Internet. Just giving everyone fair warning.

[ThePerm]

Dang, When I visited Idaho Fred Meyer's stores were pretty sweet.

[ShyGuy]

I'm running out of places to buy physical movies on DVDs or BluRays. Barnes and Nobles actually has the best selection in town.

[ThePerm]

and the highest prices.

[Stratos]

I wonder if it is only in certain markets, I'll check my local stores to be sure. Maybe I can get some nice discounted goods.

Really, I don't see Fred Meyer lasting in the current Supermarket/Box Store landscape. There are cheaper and better places for all of their departments. Albertsons hit some tough times in our region and cloed a bunch of stores.

Winco for groceries, Lowes/Home Depot for yard & garden, Ikea for furniture, GameStop/Frys/Electronic stores for games/movies/technology. And Walmart and Amazon tend to have better prices on everything. The middle stores are really getting pushed to "convenience store/Mom & Pop" status in our current environment.

[Wah]

Big W, Target and JB Hi-fi all have awesome ranges of DvD'S in OZ. so  :

[segagamersteph]

I was just at the Fred Meyer in Twin Falls, Idaho, they still have an electronics section. Just as I remembered it was the best in town. Shopko surprised me in their was a joke. They took out the counter/registers and the video games department was consolidated into just a single aisle they took out the glass containers.

K-Mart, my god that was depressing. Their electronics department looked like that of a Dollar General. It made me sick. I wanted to puke. One of my first jobs ever was in that very K-Mart electronics department.

Sadly our local Sears is an empty space now.

I haven't had any reason to venture into Best Buy so I have no idea what that looks like.

Most depressing of all, the building our local Hastings was in is now a Goodwill.