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The one in the Bay Area (Santa Clara Mercado) closed years ago and became a Walmart.

As far as I know, there's only one in SoCal still open (Tustin).

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This subthread was about Microcenter.

Kinda anecdotal, but the one in Richardson (DFW) is almost always packed. Easily one of my favorite brick and mortar stores anywhere.

There is still one open in Sunnyvale a few miles away from Santa Clara Mercado, but I’m not sure how much longer it’ll be around.

Yeah, I was in there about a month ago, needed a few long ethernet cables while at a datacenter.

Same thing everyone else reports: it was dark with a few bored employees wondering around aimlessly. Alternating messy and bare shelves. Absurd amounts of floor space compared to the trade they were doing.

They did have 50' ethernet cables, though.

This subthread was about Microcenter.

There's one in Sunnyvale, one in Fremont and one in Palo Alto.

None of those 3 locations are SoCal.

None of them are Microcenters, either.

On the sunny side, this was one of the funnier subthreads I’ve seen around here in a while :) Which is also kind of sad :( Why aren’t we funnier?

I believe the one in Sunnyvale is closing. Last time we were there, maybe a couple of months ago, the shelves were being emptied out.

I believe they were talking about Microcenter.

Ah, could be. Reading on mobile and all that.

There used to be a Micro Center in the Mercado shopping center. There's no Micro Center in Northern California any more.

Exactly what I said higher up in this thread.

I was talking about fry’s, sorry if I misread.

This subthread was about Microcenter, not Fry's.

Parent was talking about Microcenter, not Fry's.

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