No microcenter here either. As a matter of fact I've never heard of them. We've got a rare CompUSA store a couple of miles away, but it is merely a shadow of the CompUSA stores of a decade ago. CompUSA is focusing mainly on online sales. The brick and mortar nearby is as bad as Best Buy. Our Frys is also greatly diminished from a few years ago. I think our terrible economy has turned these stores into little more than giant cellular phone kiosks. None of them stock much variety and none hire a knowledgeable staff.

Our Frys is terrible. It is by far the largest electronics store (in square footage) dwarfing all the rest. But today it has many empty shelves and a large portion of the items that are sold there have been returned or the box has been opened at the store. Pretty risky to buy there these days. Several times I've gotten home with what I thought was a brand new unopened item just to find out it had been opened and portions of the contents were missing.