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Fry's Electronics was an American big-box store chain. It was headquartered in San Jose, California, in Silicon Valley. Fry's retailed software, consumer electronics, household appliances, cosmetics, tools, toys, accessories, magazines, technical books, snack foods, electronic components, and computer hardware. Fry's had in-store computer repair and custom computer building services.
Across the United States, a large number of local stores and store chains that started between the 1920s and 1950s have become defunct since the late 1960s, when many chains were either consolidated or liquidated. Some may have been lost due to mergers, while others were affected by a phenomenon of large store closings in the 2010s known as the retail apocalypse .
Fry's Marketplace is a multi-department store that offers full-service grocery, pharmacy and general merchandise including outdoor living products, electronics, home goods and toys. Ranging in size from 80,000–105,000 square feet (7,400–9,800 m 2 ), the Marketplace stores are smaller than the original Fred Meyer stores.
It was founded in 1994 by John Fry, co-founder of Fry's Electronics, and originally located in the Fry's Electronics store in Palo Alto, California. It was privately funded by Fry at inception, and has obtained NSF funding since 2002. [1] In 2014, AIM moved to a wing of Fry's corporate headquarters in San Jose, California.
1991 Sacramento hostage crisis. On April 4, 1991, 41 employees and customers were taken hostage by four gunmen and held at a Good Guys! electronics store at the corner of 65th Street and Stockton Boulevard in Sacramento, California, near the Florin Mall (now Florin Town Centre) for approximately eight hours. Near the end of the hostage crisis ...
A total of 11 California cities landed on a list of the top 100 housing markets in the United States created by Florida Atlantic University.
The People's Fry – All the way from Nashville, food service director Dareka Nicholson, her pit-master husband Terrance and her "spice queen" sister Mahdi Ekadi, have teamed up to create a menu serving every kind of loaded French fry imaginable. Blending Dareka's classical training, Terrance's BBQ mastery, and Mahdi's West African flavors ...
At 100, Miriam Todd still works 50 hours a week at her furniture store in New Jersey. She shares her simple tips for a long life and why she won't retire.