Click here if you’re unable to view the photo gallery on your mobile device. Walking into a Fry’s Electronics nowadays is nothing like it was during its heyday in the 1980s and ’90s.

SAN JOSE — The iconic Fry’s Electronics, a destination for geeks before the world turned geeky, ended a 36-year run Wednesday and closed all its stores. A Bay Area institution that opened its ...

Fry’s Electronics — a big-box retailer that grew rapidly in the 1990s with a chain of giant and sometimes wildly decorated stores — abruptly announced that it’s going out of business.

SAN JOSE — Fry’s Electronics has ceased operations permanently, saying the “difficult decision” to pull the plug Wednesday on its stores resulted from far-reaching changes in retailing and ...

It didn't have the large national footprint of Best Buy, but Fry's Electronics still managed to court a following of loyal consumers. On Wednesday, the electronics chain started 36 years ago ...

in 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Founded in 1985 in Sunnyvale, Calif., Fry’s had been an electronics institution for decades, once boasting on its website that it catered to the high ...

Fry’s Electronics, a big-box retailer that nurtured a generation of do-it-yourself tech fans and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, announced on Wednesday that it was shutting down operations ...

Learn More Fry’s Electronics recently acknowledged it would shut its store in Palo Alto, California, in January because its lease wasn’t renewed. But stores in other places are running out of ...

Rather, it's director Jordan Peele's use of the real-life Fry's Electronics, featuring a giant sculpture of a flying saucer that had "crashed-landed" into its storefront. A favorite with locals ...

SAN JOSE — The iconic Fry’s Electronics, a destination for geeks before the world turned geeky, ended a 36-year run Wednesday and closed all its stores. A Bay Area institution that opened its first ...

Walking into a Fry’s Electronics nowadays is nothing like it was during its heyday in the 1980s and ’90s. There are no long lines at the cash registers. The cafes sit mostly empty, like the ...