Atlanta has a Fry's

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At last, civilization comes to Atlanta. The local Fry's (www.frys.com) has
opened today. It's just east of Gwinnett Place Mall. Phone 678-405-6800.
Southern geeks, enjoy! I'm about to drive 50 miles to visit it...


Michael Covington
Associate Director, Artificial Intelligence Center
The University of Georgia - www.ai.uga.edu/mc
 
"Michael A. Covington" <look@ai.uga.edu.for.address> wrote in message
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At last, civilization comes to Atlanta. The local Fry's (www.frys.com)
has opened today. It's just east of Gwinnett Place Mall. Phone
678-405-6800. Southern geeks, enjoy! I'm about to drive 50 miles to visit
it...
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I phoned, was told it was open until 9 p.m. today, drove 50 miles, it was
7:25 p.m., and they were closed (though abuzz with activity). I was not
happy!
 
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:26:21 -0400, the renowned "Michael A.
Covington" <look@ai.uga.edu.for.address> wrote:

At last, civilization comes to Atlanta. The local Fry's (www.frys.com) has
opened today. It's just east of Gwinnett Place Mall. Phone 678-405-6800.
Southern geeks, enjoy! I'm about to drive 50 miles to visit it...
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Gee, if it was me, I'd also pop into the Harbor Freight in Lilburn
(only about 5 miles off of I-85). That would be a pretty good Saturday
morning.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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Spehro Pefhany wrote:
Gee, if it was me, I'd also pop into the Harbor Freight in Lilburn
(only about 5 miles off of I-85). That would be a pretty good Saturday
morning.
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Heh. That's just the itinerary I'm heading out the door for this morning.

I'll be the guy in sandals, shorts and a tee-shirt.
--
John in Fayetteville

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I phoned, was told it was open until 9 p.m. today, drove 50 miles, it was
7:25 p.m., and they were closed (though abuzz with activity). I was not
happy!
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That would frost me indeed.

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Microcontroller Consultant, specializing in Atmel AVR
 
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 13:45:46 GMT, Spehro Pefhany wrote:

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:26:21 -0400, the renowned "Michael A.
Covington" <look@ai.uga.edu.for.address> wrote:

At last, civilization comes to Atlanta. The local Fry's (www.frys.com) has
opened today. It's just east of Gwinnett Place Mall. Phone 678-405-6800.
Southern geeks, enjoy! I'm about to drive 50 miles to visit it...

Gee, if it was me, I'd also pop into the Harbor Freight in Lilburn
(only about 5 miles off of I-85). That would be a pretty good Saturday
morning.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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Then hit Spondivit's ("Shuck me suck me eat me raw") oyster bar for lunch!
 
"Michael A. Covington" <look@ai.uga.edu.for.address> wrote in message
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At last, civilization comes to Atlanta. The local Fry's
(www.frys.com) has
opened today. It's just east of Gwinnett Place Mall. Phone
678-405-6800.
Southern geeks, enjoy! I'm about to drive 50 miles to visit it...

Michael Covington
Associate Director, Artificial Intelligence Center
The University of Georgia - www.ai.uga.edu/mc
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Every time I set foot inside Fry's to buy something to do with PCs, I
think I'm shooting myself in the foot. Honestly!!

I went over to Fry's Fri before last and bought a pair of 5-port USB 2.0
PCI cards for $18 apiece and installed one of them the following week.
They were pure, unadultered POS junk. I put the CD-ROM in the drive,
and it didn't autorun so I looked in a folder for instructions and
printed them out. Yes, I used the section for XP, not another windoze.
It said to install the s/w, 'click on the icon' but obviously since it
didn't autorun there wasn't an icon. DOH.

So I went into the windows and drivers folders and double clicked on one
of the 3 .exe files and it ran, and said that it installed something.
I put the card into the PC and it didn't recognize it at all. I'm
running XP and it should've started the hardware wizard etc. I pulled
out the cheap piece of crap knockoff board with dysfunctional software
and put it back in the box, and walked across the street to Office Depot
and bought a Belkin board with the identical NEC cbip for twice as much,
$34. I put the CD-ROM in, and it said that for XP it didn't even need
any installation s/w, XP PnP would recognize it and install it. Sure
enough, I installed the PC board and it recognized it, and it worked
like a charm.

I took the two boards back over to Fry's and stood in line for 20
minutes at cust svc to get my money back, and they finally gave me the
refund certificate and said that I could go to the cashier and get the
money, but "the system was down right now", and I looked over to the
checkout line and it was h-u-g-e, there must've been fifty people in
line! It was already near closing time so I took the receipt and went
home. I'll go back later and put up with the hassle.

The day I bought the boards, the Fry's salesdroid tore off my receipt
and did something totally new and unexpected: he asked me to sign it at
the bottom, something about acknowledging that if I didn't buy their
service contract, I couldn't return the item to Fry's, I had to instead
deal directly with the factory. I refused to sign it! I think the SOBs
are trying to get the customer to waive his consumer's rights under the
state or federal laws.

Seriously, I've spent a lot more than the appx $17 difference in prices
in my time, aggravation and money, and this isn't the first time this
has happend to me. I had much worse problems with similar Fry's stuff
before.

Also, while I was standing in line at the cust svc, I noticed a sign
that said that if you are having a problem with something like a hard
disk or etc., that it "may be a configuration problem", so you have to
go to the repair area _first_ and have the hard disk or whatever checked
out, before you can get a refund. Sounds like just another way of
making it more difficult to get your refund.

I've now sworn that I'll never, EVER buy any PC boards or similar from
Fry's again. I swore i'd never buy another item that had a rebate, and
I stuck to that promise for more than a year, maybe two. Until
recently, when I got a DVD player from circuit city and the bastards
hassled me about it, making me send in even more paperwork after I'd
already sent the rebate in.

But I'm gonna have to look into that signing the receipt BS and see if
they're violating the consumer protection laws. I really don't like
this last minute stuff where they hit you right as your're finishing up
paying for the stuff and then have to sign your rights away. How many
people are going to refuse? Not many! The customers aren't given
enough time to make an informed decision on what they're signing. It
really sucks and I think it's unfair, if not illegal.

Nothing against you, Mike, but I've been burned too many times by Fry's,
and I'm hoping that with this info, you and others won't suffer the same
consequences.
 
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"Michael A. Covington" <look@ai.uga.edu.for.address> wrote in message
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At last, civilization comes to Atlanta. The local Fry's
(www.frys.com)
has opened today. It's just east of Gwinnett Place Mall. Phone
678-405-6800. Southern geeks, enjoy! I'm about to drive 50 miles to
visit
it...

I phoned, was told it was open until 9 p.m. today, drove 50 miles, it
was
7:25 p.m., and they were closed (though abuzz with activity). I was
not
happy!
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Welcome to the "I am not a happy Fry's Customer" club, Mike.
 
"Bob Stephens" <stephensyomamadigital@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 13:45:46 GMT, Spehro Pefhany wrote:

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:26:21 -0400, the renowned "Michael A.
Covington" <look@ai.uga.edu.for.address> wrote:

At last, civilization comes to Atlanta. The local Fry's
(www.frys.com) has
opened today. It's just east of Gwinnett Place Mall. Phone
678-405-6800.
Southern geeks, enjoy! I'm about to drive 50 miles to visit it...

Gee, if it was me, I'd also pop into the Harbor Freight in Lilburn
(only about 5 miles off of I-85). That would be a pretty good
Saturday
morning.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

Then hit Spondivit's ("Shuck me suck me eat me raw") oyster bar for
lunch!
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Speaking of eateries.. Last week I went to a Chik-Fil-A fast-food place
that opened up recently. Looks like some regional fast food company
from down south in the GA-AL area has now invaded So. Cal. Sign said
that they've been around for over 50 years. The only thing we didn't
like was some mothers letting their little brats scream and run around.
 
The Atlanta Fry's happens to be near two other very good computer-component
stores (CompUSA and Micro Center; the latter is really good). I think this
will keep them on their toes.
 
"Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover"" <NOSPAM@dslextreme.com> wrote
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Speaking of eateries.. Last week I went to a Chik-Fil-A fast-food place
that opened up recently. Looks like some regional fast food company
from down south in the GA-AL area has now invaded So. Cal. Sign said
that they've been around for over 50 years. The only thing we didn't
like was some mothers letting their little brats scream and run around.
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Chick-Fil-A is indeed from Atlanta and started as one restaurant here about
50 years ago. The founder, Mr. Truett Cathy, is quite a philanthropist,
maintaining orphanages and the like. (I know the man who runs one of the
orphanages.) The sandwiches are good... Chick-Fil-A's are not open on
Sunday. They consider this an employee benefit -- it's the one place a
young person can get a fast-food job and still be guaranteed one day off
every week.
 
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"Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover"" <NOSPAM@dslextreme.com
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Speaking of eateries.. Last week I went to a Chik-Fil-A fast-food
place
that opened up recently. Looks like some regional fast food company
from down south in the GA-AL area has now invaded So. Cal. Sign
said
that they've been around for over 50 years. The only thing we
didn't
like was some mothers letting their little brats scream and run
around.


Chick-Fil-A is indeed from Atlanta and started as one restaurant here
about
50 years ago. The founder, Mr. Truett Cathy, is quite a
philanthropist,
maintaining orphanages and the like. (I know the man who runs one of
the
orphanages.) The sandwiches are good... Chick-Fil-A's are not open
on
Sunday. They consider this an employee benefit -- it's the one place
a
young person can get a fast-food job and still be guaranteed one day
off
every week.
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Them burger flippers make so close to minimum wages that having one less
day a week to 'make a living' might be viewed as a curse rather than a
blessing. Besides, most states (and federal too?) have overtime laws
which limit the number of hours an employee can work. This new federal
overtime law revision thing has me wondering tho.

Anyway, we went there again today for lunch. For 12 clucks - er bucks,
we got barely enough food to make a lunch. So the lady I was with said,
I'm still hungry so I'm going to go get some more chicken nuggets; you
want something else? And I said, how about a lemon pie. So we ended up
spending more like $20 for lunch, and that ain't cheap, especially for a
fast food place. We regularly do lunch at some chinese food places
where _three_ of us get full sit-down service for $22 or so. And we
regularly walk over to a local mexican drive-thru food place that has
booths and we can buy a decent lunch for $7 apiece. I guess the
Chick-Fil-A is considered an upscale place because it's in a big
shopping mall.

I think the attendant that came around and asked us if we wanted refills
for our drinks was a nice touch, but why don't they just put the drink
machine out where the customers are, like all the other fast food
chains? It'll just be one less hassle for the cashiers. Yeah, I know;
bitch. bitch, bitch..
 
Well, Waston, if you don't like Chick-Fil-A you don't have to go there! I
don't eat there very much myself, but because of the ubiquity of it, I do
sometimes.
 
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