I hear a lot of whining about Wal-Mart's post-Thanksgiving sales being down. Maybe. I don't know as I live in a town (Los Angeles) that has outlawed Wal-Mart. But Fry's Electronics seems to be doing just fine.
After swearing not to do any shopping this weekend, I made the mistake of reading Fry's ad on, um, Friday. So I found myself in the Manhattan Beach store at 8AM, two hours after it opened. Took me a while to park as the overflow lot was full; never seen that before. I quickly picked out about $400 of needful things (e.g. 1GB USB flash, $47), all on sale, and then stood in the store-spanning check-out line for about 50 minutes. Most people around me had far more booty than myself.
Not all stores are equal -- drove past CompUSA on Saturday, and their tiny lot had open spaces. So, if Wal-Mart is having problems, it might just be Wal-Mart's fault. Or Amazon's.
I made the opposite mistake, namely assuming that there would be no huge Fry's sale since only a crappy little blurb ran on Thursday. I did make it to the local Fry's at lunch, just in time to watch the last almost-free Palm Pilot walk away from me before my very eyes.
Posted by: Xrlq at November 29, 2004 12:23 AM