I started finding deals subreddits to be a good source of alternative shops. Now I'm not going to claim that their not gamed (there are more then one site banned for trying and failing) but ones like /r/frugalmalefashion have pointed me to a lot of other retailers I wouldn't have considered.

> * For electronics there is microcenter.com, frys.com, tigerdirect.com, circuitcity.com, and many many more.*

Definitely drop frys.com from the list, they are going out of business. Actually, except for microcenter.com, I wouldn't buy from the others either. newegg.com seems to have the best attribute filtering by far.

Wow... didn't know that. Haven't been back to the US in years. End of an era... I built several computers from trips to Frys.

Yeah, it is a shame.

I've been purposely going to Microcenter, and buying stuff there in the hopes that they'll stay in business. There's no other computer stores in the area of note.

If frys hasn't gone out of business yet, they're not going to - last one I was in only sold gift bags and batteries in a massive retail space and yet somehow they were still there. The retail gods must love Mr. Fry.

> If frys hasn't gone out of business yet, they're not going to - last one I was in only sold gift bags and batteries in a massive retail space and yet somehow they were still there.

I really don't understand why Fry's isn't out of business.

Do they own the real estate they're sitting on or something? Are their online operations that profitable?

Sure, a private company can carry losses for as long as they have money. But, why would you?

>Do they own the real estate they're sitting on or something?

A quick search gives some mixed results. They own their San Jose property¹ through an affiliate company. This affiliate doesn't appear to own any other Fry's property though². Conversely, the Palo Alto location was closed when the lease ran out³.

¹https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/01/10/industrial-mega-devel...

²https://www.corporationwiki.com/California/Menlo-Park/caraco...

³https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/29/frys-to-close-its-pal...

> They own their San Jose property¹ through an affiliate company.

Ah! That probably explains it.

Any residual money can be drained into the affiliate companies before filing bankruptcy so that there is nothing left in "Fry's".

A lot of people have been wondering the same thing:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Is-Fry-s-Electr...

https://venturebeat.com/2019/09/10/frys-electronics-isnt-res...

Tigerdirect has a pitiful selection as far as PC building goes, and usually their prices are not even remotely competitive. I'm not even sure how they're still in business.