I saw this coming a mile away. My local fry's (Renton) used to be a really fun place to visit. Over the past decade or so it has really gone downhill. It is such a depressing store to visit nowadays. A lot of the selves are barren in a no-shits-given sort of way. It doesn't seem like the store is cleaned too often, and most of the time it is worryingly empty. One would think fry's was doing everything they could to make themselves unappealing. Their online store is somewhere between useless and unusable, and is suck in some pre 2010's era. It looks like instead of trying to keep up and adapt with the times, they hunkered down and cut every corner they could until this inevitable demise.

They'll be missed, but I don't think my local fry's closing is going to inconvenience anyone. Best Buy basically ate their lunch: a brick and mortar store you can visit if you want a hands on (or ears on) experience, and not having to wait for shipping at the sacrifice of selection. Said selection is a lot worse than fry's, but at least being in Best Buy doesn't fill me with a sense of doom, dread and despair.