Originally Posted by LIH Prem

Yes, service-wise, you hit the nail on the head, but if you know what you want and checked pricing ahead of time, sometimes they have good deals, and they also have a lot of stuff that's hard to find, and a lot of stuff you generally won't find elsewhere at a retail store, so it can be fun just to look around the store. They also sell Jolt Cola and things like that at the same time. Fry's Electronics has become a sort-of institution in the California Bay Area because of all that.

Also, they take returns, so one of my friends calls Fry's his "lending library".

Each store is themed differently.

-David