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landtuna said:
My first response was to seeing Fry's Electronics on TV ads here in Phoenix. Even when the stores were open I don't ever remember seeing an electronic commercial. I do remember their newspaper ads and circulars though.

And yes, you are correct. There were two Fry's Electronics stores in the metro area. I was a customer of the Tempe store but got really tired of the long checkout lines and questionable customer service. Apparently a number of other customers did as well. I don't know if their other stores in the Bay Area are still open or not.
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Nope. All gone as of February of 2021:

www.engadget.com

The remaining Fry's Electronics stores are all shutting down | Engadget

Fry's Electronics stores nationwide have closed permanently..
www.engadget.com www.engadget.com

Interestingly, Jordan Peele's movie "Nope" needed a Fry's electronics store (apparently a major plot point---I haven't seen the movie yet) and were able to go into the now-closed Burbank location and re-create it:

www.sfgate.com

How Jordan Peele brought Fry's Electronics back to life in 'Nope'

A recently dismantled location was rebuilt for the film.
www.sfgate.com www.sfgate.com
 
Derek said:
Wait, is Fry's the grocery chain really changing to Kroger? Or are we talking about the late Fry's Electronics?
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I'm afraid I might have confused some readers. The original topic was Fry's Foods but I had asked one of the early posters if he was referring to the food or electronics store and we kind of gotten onto two different tracks.
 
Derek said:
Wait, is Fry's the grocery chain really changing to Kroger? Or are we talking about the late Fry's Electronics?
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Kroger bought Fry's Foods several years ago I believe. Apparently Krogers hasn't rebranded all the old Fry's Foods stores yet. We still have the Fry's name here in Phoenix.
 
Derek said:
Wait, is Fry's the grocery chain really changing to Kroger? Or are we talking about the late Fry's Electronics?
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The Fry's name is expected to go away eventually. The in-house food brand has been Kroger for a few years now. I doubt much will happen until the Kroger acquisition of Albertson's/Safeway is complete, including the inevitable store closings, a couple years from now.
 
Derek said:
Wait, is Fry's the grocery chain really changing to Kroger? Or are we talking about the late Fry's Electronics?
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Fry's grocery is part of Kroger.
 
landtuna said:
Kroger bought Fry's Foods several years ago I believe. Apparently Krogers hasn't rebranded all the old Fry's Foods stores yet. We still have the Fry's name here in Phoenix.
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Just as in much of California they are branded as Ralph's and not Kroger.
 
landtuna said:
Kroger bought Fry's Foods several years ago I believe. Apparently Krogers hasn't rebranded all the old Fry's Foods stores yet. We still have the Fry's name here in Phoenix.
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My wife, who grew up in Phoenix, would call our Kroger stores "Fry's" until recently.
 
landtuna said:
My first response was to seeing Fry's Electronics on TV ads here in Phoenix. Even when the stores were open I don't ever remember seeing an electronic commercial. I do remember their newspaper ads and circulars though.

And yes, you are correct. There were two Fry's Electronics stores in the metro area. I was a customer of the Tempe store but got really tired of the long checkout lines and questionable customer service. Apparently a number of other customers did as well. I don't know if their other stores in the Bay Area are still open or not.
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The entire Fry's Electronics chain has shut down.
 
KeithE4 said:
The Fry's name is expected to go away eventually. The in-house food brand has been Kroger for a few years now. I doubt much will happen until the Kroger acquisition of Albertson's/Safeway is complete, including the inevitable store closings, a couple years from now.
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We have one of each store within one mile of the Hacienda del Callous. Once Kroger owns them all I expect the price wars will go away (or the 'weekly' specials will rotate). Fortunately we also have a Bashas' almost right next door and their offerings are much better than the larger chains (butcher on site, fabulous bakery, eat-in deli). Their prices are a bit higher but we support the store anyway because it is what a full service grocery should be (and Eddie Basha was a great person).
 
gr8oldies said:
My wife, who grew up in Phoenix, would call our Kroger stores "Fry's" until recently.
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I've lived in the Phoenix area most of my life some of which I spent at Intel. When you specified "Fry's" at work you were assumed to be talking about the electronics store but at home it meant the food store. Confusing!
 
KeithE4 said:
There was one on Baseline between 48th St and I-10 in Tempe, but closed along with the rest of the chain years ago.
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Which began life as Incredible Universe, which did advertise on TV. I had a bad customer service experience the one time I went there to buy a cordless phone and never returned.

 
Derek said:
Which began life as Incredible Universe, which did advertise on TV. I had a bad customer service experience the one time I went there to buy a cordless phone and never returned.
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IIRC, Incredible Universe was owned by Radio Shack, which explains your bad experience. ;)
 
landtuna said:
We have one of each store within one mile of the Hacienda del Callous. Once Kroger owns them all I expect the price wars will go away (or the 'weekly' specials will rotate). Fortunately we also have a Bashas' almost right next door and their offerings are much better than the larger chains (butcher on site, fabulous bakery, eat-in deli). Their prices are a bit higher but we support the store anyway because it is what a full service grocery should be (and Eddie Basha was a great person).
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Also, Bashas' has stores in small places like Bagdad, Az and on The Reservation where no one else
is willing to serve the area! I hated when they closed their store in Prescott. It was my favorite supermarket!
 
Prescott Joe said:
Also, Bashas' has stores in small places like Bagdad, Az and on The Reservation where no one else
is willing to serve the area! I hated when they closed their store in Prescott. It was my favorite supermarket!
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Considering Bashas' serves so much of rural AZ I am perplexed they couldn't make it work in Prescott. Or did the Big Box groceries drive them out?
 
The 3:00 p.m. news on ABC15 with Pazera didn't last long at all. Personally, he strikes me as very pretentious. Or perhaps it was just newscast overkill that did it in? Regardless, it really wasn't necessary in my view. :unsure:
 
The Media Observer said:
The 3:00 p.m. news broadcast on ABC15 with Pazera didn't last long at all. Personally, he strikes me as very pretentious. Or perhaps it was just newscast overkill that did it in? It really wasn't necessary in my view. :unsure:
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It'll be back sometime around March 2024, once we have more politicians making fools of themselves before the primaries.
 
Prescott Joe said:
Also, Bashas' has stores in small places like Bagdad, Az and on The Reservation where no one else
is willing to serve the area! I hated when they closed their store in Prescott. It was my favorite supermarket!
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You mean in the same mall where the movie theater on the hillside above it closed, along with a nice furniture store? The problem was that the mall is on tribal land and the leaders overestimated the kinds of rents that stores could afford. So a bunch of them left around 2014 or so once the old leases ran out.

Apparently the Basha's location never reopened. The tribe itself opened the theaters again, but a number of anchor-size stores are still empty.

We liked the Basha's better than the Frys or the WalMart we had closer by. It had a great selection of Mexican brands, too!
 
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