I have seen many things...........

Frys Electronics, for those who don't keep the faith, is likely the biggest bestest properest electronics store in the world. Doug waxes lyrical about the very original store in Sunnyvale twenty odd years ago, and now it is a franchise with each store bigger than any warehouse store you've ever seen. Frys still sells everything from diodes to fridge freezers. Well...........the day after Thanksgiving in San Diego, Frys had a one-day sale, but we didn't know that and went there looking for a $5 memory card adapter. The car park is bigger than Oxford anyway, but was totally full, and people were warning us on the way in to 'run away', which we didn't get?! The sale prices were about half price, and the whole store was full of one long line of thousands of people waiting to pay with high value tvs, diodes, oscilloscopes, all sorts of loot. Dumbstruck, we asked a guy near the checkout how long he'd waited in line to pay - 3.5 HOURS !!! The store was expecting to take $2.4m on one day.......it was like boys go shopping frenzy on a public holiday, sunny day when the pubs were open and the football was on................or was it a dream :-)