Look up on my works ye mighty and despair
I miss my frys electronics and their goofy buildings
At least microcenter will come to my hometown soon
My only complaint with microcenter is that the commission in incentives come off as extreme. Like I will be walking around with something in my hand and a rando will come up to me, say “hey there boss, lemme just slap this on that for you,” and proceed to put a sticker on it with their ID. Not a big deal, but palpable, and makes it harder to just browse.
Time to swap it out for an unlabeled one I guess 🤷
Nah, no hard feelings towards the retail folks, they’re doing what they’re supposed to. It’s just that I wish the corporate incentives were different so it felt more like the staff were trying to help.
Why do i feel like crying…
That graphic in the second link, holy shit
Unregulated capitalism destroys everything it touches, including itself.
“Let me put it this way. A corporation is like a big, hungry monster. My job is to find plenty of smaller, weaker monsters for it to eat.”
Yeah, pretty sad to see. Shopping at all the different department stores was pretty cool back then. But now it’s all Macy’s.
Toys r Us is still going strong in Canada
…What else of ours have you got?
There’s still one Spencer’s gifts left in my city.
We also just recently got papa John’s but I’m too conflicted to try it
I have a teenager. Trust me, Spencer’s are still all over the U.S. As is Hot Topic.
And I hate them both.
Better ingredients, better pizza. Put Papa johns warm melty cheese in your mouth.
Honestly though i don’t mind papa johns pizza
Well I wouldn’t say strong
There was always a certain ambiance in Circuit City that I found to be appealing. At least on my local one before it closed down. It was like the lights were dimmed way down, but it was still bright enough to see. I guess you would call that “cool temperature” lighting, which is definitely not fashionable anymore. Everything nowadays seems to follow Apple’s store design which is this sterile eggshell white, bathed in neutral or warm temperature lighting. I find it kind of boring, but I understand why they do it that way.
Plus, I loved how instantly recognizable their old stores were. The big red block turned at an angle for an entrance was brilliant imo. They used it a lot in their television commercials and made it look like a plug end or a battery coming down from the sky.
“Fun” fact: Bain Capital killed both TRU and KayBee Toys.
They didn’t fall, they left.
Yup. Toys R Us still lives and it’s still going strong in many countries like Canada and many European countries
Same as Malaysia as well, it make waves on the news but in the end it just affect the US.
That’s the Chula Vista toys r us and the San Diego Fry’s. Right?
That’s a circuit city, not a fry’s
LOL 😅
The way these buildings were built tell you they weren’t intended to be around for long. Four cinder block walls and a flat metal roof. Cheap to put up, easy to tear down
Yet they’re rarely torn down. Other stores hermit crab into the space.
These buildings have generally been around for longer than the companies that moved in and then went bankrupt 🤷♂️
I never understood circuit city. The local one ran prices 10-20% higher then best buy a few blocks over. You’d only ever go there when best buy ran out of dvd-r’s.
That being said whoever worked in their gaming section and kept updating the demo kiosk with every game now labeled a “hidden gem”… Props because those were always fresh picks.
Odd, it was the other way around where I lived. CC had the best prices while BB was overpriced, and like you said, CC’s gaming section was great.
What’s the one on the bottom right?
Circuit City IIRC
For us Canadians it would be future shop, which was basically Canadian best buy till best buy showed up
Funnily enough, in my town there used to be a Future Shop, and then a Best Buy sprung up in the new commercial district, but apparently couldn’t compete because it closed 2 years later. Then about a year later Best Buy bought Future Shop and they re-branded the existing Future Shop to Best Buy.
Years ago, I had a friend who worked at Best Buy and was fired (he’s a nice guy, but lazy, so I’m not surprised). He then went to work to work at Circuit City. He found out that most everyone who worked there was also fired from Best Buy.
To me, this explains a lot.
wow that’s a terrible logo
RIP Fry’s.
Best buy is coming to join them
Stahp I just watched a 2-hour video analysis of liminal spaces I can only get so hauntological
