Quote Originally Posted by TheTravellers View Post
I believe Fry's still sells parts, not sure because we haven't been in one since we left IL in 2007-ish, but the model still works, albeit in tandem with everything else sold at a big box store. It's a bummer we'll never see one here.
It still works. In the late '90s, there were too many players in the brick-and-mortar tech store market. You had at least Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, PC Club, Ultimate Electronics, TigerDirect, Fry's, and MicroCenter. The much-needed thinning of the herd came during the Great Recession. The market just isn't there for that many stores in addition to sites like Amazon and NewEgg as well as stores like Wal-Mart, Office Depot, and Staples which sell plenty of low-end tech. Unfortunately, smaller markets like OKC have been left without a true computer superstore and the local hardware stores have not picked up the slack.

I would love to see a store like Fry's, MicroCenter, or TigerDirect open in OKC. I am not sure why they don't analyze markets without computer superstores and without decent mom-and-pop tech stores to discover that expanding into those markets might actually work.