Fry's looks essentially done in Renton, WA. Little to no new inventory in months, many bare shelves, lots of shelf space filled-in with cheap goods (I saw 30 linear feet of crepe paper, I guess it was cheap or they found a supplier who fronted them merchandise). For some reason they added gardening and lawn maintenance equipment (shovels, rakes and hoses . . . because I always think of Fry's when I think of yard work /snark).

I've been going to Fry's since the early 80s, when they were a supermarket that had started carrying computer stuff. It was a place to take out-of-town visitors, especially for the first couple of themed Fry's.

It's never been a really great place to actually buy stuff; you had to be careful that what you chose from the shelf wasn't returned and repackaged, for one thing. For a while you couldn't buy a laptop from them and take immediately delivery, they had to "test" new machines, and I remember telling them that I would let them know if a serial port was bad, and to get their mitts off of my hardware.

They no longer check receipts at the door in Renton. This truly is the end times.