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Best Buy price matches to Amazon. They also work with cashback services and often times gives you a $5 coupon after purchasing a certain amount. Finally, they also let you return open boxes, no questions asked. Forgot to mention, you can do same day pick up for an item.

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Around three years ago, bestbuy realized that they would need to make some sort of change. They did and their stores got better. It still isn't a replacement for what Fry's used to be.

But my point was that Fry's could have made changes too. It's very possible to compete with Amazon.

Yeah, it does look a bit like they just rolled over. Still, bestbuy and frys are not directly comparable imo. Micro Center is more analogous to frys. Somewhere else in the thread someone pointed that they had to bail out of california.

Fry's did make changes. Maybe not as many as Best Buy, but they do price match Amazon, last I checked.

At the same time bestbuy started price matching, the also stepped up their customer service, return policy, and stock.

Fry’s literally does all that, except for maybe the $5 coupon.

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