Fry’s Electronics

I have been shopping at Fry’s regularly since I started working in Fountain Valley in 2014, thanks to their daily Promo Code e-​mail specials. One of my weekly favorite specials is their Aquafina 24 case of bottled water for $ 2.40 plus $ 1.20 CRV, which comes out to $ 3.60 total, the best deal in town for that brand of water! I also occasionally buy electronics with their daily Promo Code specials. Even without the e-​mail Promo Code sales, their overall prices for electronics are excellent, low prices!
The store is huge. Sometimes I have to ask Employees for help in finding particular items. I like the way the store is decorated with the ancient Rome theme, as described on their website. The Employees in the store are friendly, helpful, and very professionally dressed.
I always enjoy my visits to this store and do recommend it to my family and friends.

I feel bad for some retailers who can’t seem to compete with the online world. I’ve actually faced some similar challanges as I have sold items off of a website and it’s tough.
It’s tough, but you can still do business the right way.
But when you claim to match online prices, you should at least do more than pretend to match pricing and be transparent prior to having the gigantic sign that says «We match Internet pricing.»
This Frys sells a small specific little product that just so happens to be on hundreds of other sites. Their price $ 17.99 per unit. I couldn’t find it online for more than $ 6.95 without shipping, Max $ 9.99 with shipping. But the average price online was around $ 3 per unit. Amazon, Newegg, many others. Sears, walmart, etc.
However once I went up to the cashier with 4 of the units x $ 17.99 with my phone on amazon showing it at $ 2.05 per unit, they said NOPE.
I had said prior to cashing out, hey even If they split the difference or make it somewhere near their policy, we’d make a deal and be happy.
But first they pulled out of behind, that amazon, it needs to be sold by Amazon and shipped by amazon, with cost of shipping, etc. Ok fine. But wait, only specifically sold by Amazon themselves? The only difference is, amazon has the products in their warehouses because it’s longer history of selling that specific product with that particular seller. If they can hold the stock, they’ll take your stock and sell as their own. The pricing isn’t any more reasonable.
But because it was sold by a third party, like, what, 99% of amazon products, it didn’t make the cut. So amazon was out. (Online pricing???, no) Even though it was $ 2.05 with free prime shipping per unit. Amazon didn’t make the cut of «online pricing»
Then I had to start searching a list they gave me of approved sites. Now since everyone of those online stores has a marketplace, everyone and their mom’s can sell products on them and nothing is actually stocked at .coms any longer.
I went through one after another, all priced from $ 2 – 6 and each time they sited it was a third party, or that site was approved. It was ridiculous. Denied, denied, denied. Still $ 17.99. Now I’m fuming. It’s 8 times the average price.
Then they tried to say those users weren’t autorized to sell the products but when pressed they meant approved by frys to compete like they meant on their gigantic sign outside the store.
In the end its total b.s. they don’t match pricing online. They charge 8 times the price. They have to to compete and I respect that. But I don’t respect claiming to «Match Internet pricing».
They ended up offering me $ 5 off each to shut me up and get me moving, but it was the store manager after the sales manager wouldn’t and that was after the cashier wouldn’t match the price of any online retailer of the EXACT product.
I went home after buying the 2 I absolutely needed and bought 20 from monoprice for less than the 2 cost me at frys.
I will never step foot in a frys again. I actually use to send customers their way vs best buy due to the basic monopoly best buy has on a lot of the market, but I will never buy something from frys until they learn and accept that online is online when it comes to cheaply bought Chinese a/​v accessories. And if they are going to take a product they get for $ 1 and sell for $ 17.99, while claiming to match the $ 2.05 price others are willing to sell for, they are full of it and don’t deserve to have the sympathy of the average American consumer.
Do yourself a favor and stick to amazon and prime shipping to save yourself the money and hassle dealing with the liars that won’t match online pricing.