alt Hacker NewsAnother important detail which the article glosses over is that, when Frys' supplier relationships started failing around 2019-2020, their product selection absolutely went to hell. When I visited a store in 2020, they had zero hard disks in stock - internal, external, mechanical, SSD, you name it, they didn't have it. I don't think they had any computer motherboards, CPUs, or memory, either. Plenty of cheap, generic shelf-fillers like hand sanitizer and light bulbs, though!
In that era I remember they had mostly fidget spinners. I think the staff were really bored at that point because half the fidget spinner inventory was in those clear plastic security boxes for what was a useless $10 toy.