{"id":37043,"date":"2021-02-25T03:22:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T03:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=37043"},"modified":"2021-02-25T03:22:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T03:22:04","slug":"frys-electronics-is-shutting-its-doors-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=37043","title":{"rendered":"Fry’s Electronics is shutting its doors for good"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fry’s Electronics, one of the last large-scale brick-and-mortar electronics store chains in the United State — and a Silicon Valley institution in particular — is permanently closing nationwide, local broadcaster KRON4 is confirmation<\/a>, following a report from Bill Reynolds<\/a> and another from Matthew Keys<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The company’s Facebook page is also gone and its Twitter feed has been set to private — it was public earlier this evening, though it hadn’t tweeted in quite some time.<\/p>\n

If you’ve ever inspected a Fry’s anytime in the past two to three years , none of this will come as a surprise.<\/p>\n

Even before the COVID-1 9 pandemic, the family-owned business<\/a> had been pushed to the brink of extinction by online retailers like Amazon, Newegg and more. Initially, the…<\/p>\n

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Fry’s Electronics, one of the last large-scale brick-and-mortar electronics store chains in the United State — and a Silicon Valley institution in particular — is permanently closing nationwide, local broadcaster KRON4 is confirmation, following a report from Bill Reynolds and another from Matthew Keys. The company’s Facebook page is also gone and its Twitter feed …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7872,15783,18513,15805,21268,16053,15998],"class_list":["post-37043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-past","tag-been","tag-ever","tag-mdash","tag-none","tag-three","tag-years"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20190209_Sean_Hollister_Verge_11614223325.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}