Fry’s Electronics is shutting its doors for good
Fry's Electronics, one of the last big brick-and-mortar electronics store chains in the United States - and a Silicon Valley institution in particular - is permanently closing nationwide, local broadcaster KRON4 has confirmed, following a report from Bill Reynolds and another from Matthew Keys.
The company's Facebook page is also gone and its Twitter feed has been set to private - it was public earlier this evening, though it hadn't tweeted in quite some time.
If you've ever visited a Fry's anytime in the past two to three years, none of this will come as a surprise.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the family-owned business had been pushed to the brink of extinction by online retailers like Amazon, Newegg and more. Initially, the...