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SavannahLion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incredible_Universe

Basically, it was a bunch of Rat Shack stores on super steroids. IIRC, there wasn't anybody like Incredible Universe on the same scale when they first opened their stores. According to the Wikipedia they folded because of competition from stores like Best Buy. Personally, I think it was a bit more than that. I think the stores were a bit ahead of their time and Tandy really didn't understand how to operate such a business. For instance, the old IU is so far out of the way that the only reason anyone would go in that direction is if they were headed specifically to that store, Arco or trying to hit the I-5. I didn't even know that store existed until a friend of mine took me there and that was long after Frys took it over.

Even when IU sold their only profitable stores to Frys, that store still sucked balls. Partly because of the location but mostly due to Frys tendency to treat everyone like criminals and cattle. But I guess that business model is successful enough, Frys opened another store East of that location right next to the automall.

Not that anyone cares, but the old Incredible Universe building aka Frys is still on Tandy Drive except the owners of Frys won't admit it. Pretty ---smurfing--- lame. ::)

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: dre-w on January 20, 2011, 01:06:40 am ---About 3 years ago I went into Frys and they had a bunch of NES carts on an endcap.  They were all the same game though, I think it was a hockey game and some other sports game and for some reason they were all just cartridges and had clearance stickers on them.  I wonder if they used to do trade-ins or if they just found all those games in the back stockroom haha

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I'm not sure but I think there was actually a company that resold used games, kind of like Gamestop. I saw a similar set up at K-Mart. A bunch of individual NES carts in separate plastic baggies and stickers. No boxes, manuals, sleeves or anything. The selection was pretty crappy though. There was probably about 30 games or so and only four or five unique titles.

Anyhow, I digress. I have a vague recollection of some company buying NES carts in bulk (online perhaps?) and reselling them through stores like merchandise. I believe K-Mart was one of the carriers. Frys might have been another. I think they were planning to buy older console games as they aged, such as the Genesis, SNES, so on and so forth and sell them at affordable prices. I think I might have seen a few bagged Gennie games. I can't quite recall.

Nothing further ever manifested though.

edit: Wait. Three years ago? I saw those plastic baggie carts in K-Mart sometime around 200..2ish. I think I last saw them right around the time K-Mart liquidated all their PSOne peripherals. Picked up two PSOne monitors for less than $20.

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on January 20, 2011, 09:52:22 am ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on January 20, 2011, 04:31:39 am ---Basically, it was a bunch of Rat Shack stores on super steroids.

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No, not really.  It was basically a bunch of different stores inside one giant one.  You had the appliance store, video game store, stereo store, etc.  All united by a central stage that had either bands or an in-store DJ.  I recall the stores were more or less isolated from each other with half walls and such.
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Have you actually worked at Rat Shack? Their entire goal is to put a shack within 5 minutes of every person in America then become the go-to store for everythin. A lot like how IU was.


--- Quote ---All Fry's maps are simplified like that, btw.

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It's not about the pretty pictures PBJ, its about the address. Check again.

shmokes:
I read through about half of the first page and got bored, so maybe this has been addressed.  But Best Buy has no legal duty to honor accidentally mis-labeled items.  That's not false advertising.  Their decision to honor the price was a customer-satisfaction based policy decision.

The trick in situations like these is to ask yourself, is this law ridiculous?  A law that made a store honor a mistake like this when the mistake has caused nobody substantial harm would be absurd.  The law (usually) is not an ass.  People are inclined to believe these urban myths when they want to, i.e., when the law gives them some absurdly unfair advantage.  If you operate on the assumption that the law is not an ass your ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow--- meter will help you spot these things 9 times out of 10 (infrequently the law actually is an ass).

Hoopz:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on January 20, 2011, 04:36:09 pm ---Trust the guy selling speakers out of his van, it's breaking his heart to sell them so cheap.

 ;D


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Last time I heard that was at Circuit City or CompUsa....  I miss those days.  Best Buy by themselves sucks ass.

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