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Title: Fred Meyer got rid of their electronics department
Post by: ShyGuy on January 03, 2017, 07:26:40 PM
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.
Title: Re: Fred Meyer got rid of their electronics department
Post by: ThePerm on January 03, 2017, 09:49:01 PM
Dang, When I visited Idaho Fred Meyer's stores were pretty sweet.
Title: Re: Fred Meyer got rid of their electronics department
Post by: ShyGuy on January 03, 2017, 10:09:44 PM
I'm running out of places to buy physical movies on DVDs or BluRays. Barnes and Nobles actually has the best selection in town.
Title: Re: Fred Meyer got rid of their electronics department
Post by: ThePerm on January 03, 2017, 11:42:29 PM
and the highest prices.
Title: Re: Fred Meyer got rid of their electronics department
Post by: Stratos on January 15, 2017, 09:53:44 PM
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.
Title: Re: Fred Meyer got rid of their electronics department
Post by: Wah on January 15, 2017, 11:04:02 PM
Big W, Target and JB Hi-fi all have awesome ranges of DvD'S in OZ. so  :P:
Title: Re: Fred Meyer got rid of their electronics department
Post by: segagamersteph on May 25, 2018, 04:07:02 PM
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.