🚀 go-pugleaf

barbie gee <booger@nosespam.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Bruce Esquibel wrote:
> 
>> Eric <ericw2000@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I notice I seldom hear anyone refer to Fry's anymore.
>>
>> Yeah but do you get anything from Fry's?
>>
>> I was thinking about this when Melissa wanted the tv, we've bought stuff
>> from Fry's before but get nothing in advertising from them at all. One thing
>> Microcenter does well is plastering their warez, daily emails, specials, the
>> monthly paper/flyer thing.
>>
>> I mean, I was ready to pick up a set from Costco, being "last years" model
>> would of worked fine for what she wanted when the email came about the Sony
>> tv with Google blowout sale from Microcenter.
>>
>> I didn't even think of Fry's.
>>
>> It looks like another big box store is opening in the area, hhgregs I guess.
>>
>> With Best Buy sort of struggling a while, seems odd someone thought a new
>> group of stores would work, think it said they are opening 15 of them here.
>>
>> I mention that because that appliance store that open up next door to MC on
>> Elston is gone, don't even remember the name of it. Think it was there for
>> two years, kind of surprising it lasted that long.
> 
> That was Grant's.
> 
> The location is the kiss of death over there.
> But, Grant's seems to be trying to be an Abt or something, but the one 
> time I went in there, the sales people were hovery and the prices all 
> seemed high.

ha, "hovery".

It will be hard to touch ABT.