February 10, 2016, 9:32 am
Here is the magazine rack at my local Fry's Electronics store. They used to sell a huge array of magazines. Now they are selling blank notebook paper and spiral notebooks
It is bad enough that magazines were seen as a poor enough product that they get replaced by a bunch of generic, low-value, presumably low-margin items. But I find it especially ironic that periodicals have been replaced by blank bound paper. It implies that the paper in the magazines had value but the writing on them somehow reduced that value, such that they would rather just sell paper that is blank.
December 12, 2007, 10:53 am
CompUSA is apparently closing shop, something that is not too surprising observing the follies at my local store. I can understand how CompUSA was killed by the likes of Best Buy and Fry's Electronics (not to mention Newegg.com, which is my favorite source). What I cannot understand is how Radio Shack continues to plod along and survive. I buy a couple of things a year there (usually something like a transformer replacement or some kind of oddball splitter) but I am always kind of surprised to still find them there -- its like finding a Woolworth's in the local mall. Though it still seems to make money, with a TTM after-tax margin of about 5%, which is not bad for a retailer.
Update: here
February 15, 2007, 8:49 am
I saw this e-ink screen technology on a Sony e-book reader at Fry's Electronics the other day. It is gorgeous. Give me one of these with Linux and a web browser, and it will be very close to the device I have been looking for (something like the form factor of a Nokia 770 and the capability of the small sony handeld computer)
