I really don't know. All excep FYE and Payless I have old fond memories. Toy R Us, always begging my parents to go even to just look around, in the eyes of a 10 year old the place was magical. As an adult when my kids were little and Toys R Us was still around, not so magical, kind of painful just trying to not spend an hour in there.

As a teenager, Blockbuster on Friday and Saturday night, trying to rent a new release, lucking out and getting your first choice or not and walking around for 30 min with friends or a date trying to decide on something else. Later teenager, renting some romcom and hoping my girlfriend's parents weren't home.

Circuit city was college years. Spent a good amount in there and bestbuy. CC always seemed to have slightly higher end stuff but it's old model of commissioned sales people, them having to punch in what you wanted then having to get it pulled from the back was already dated. Ended up working at a bestbuy one summer, that took the last bit of fun out of that kind of store for me.

Hollywood video was more of the same hoping to get the movie I wanted, just at a later period of my life. I had just graduated, my then girlfriend and I were poor and a lot of Friday nights were spent finding something to watch for the weekend as entertainment.

Fry's expanded to Texas right as I graduated school and moved back. I had a little bit of a side hustle building computers for family members so early on it was great place to get gear. The nearest one was like a 40 min drive. Loved opening the Friday Fry's ad in the newspaper to see the deals. Moved to GA and then the opened one 15 min from my house, it was heaven. Then slowly the decline.

Sears, I can still smell the popcorn they used to pop near the hardware section when I was a kid. Kind of didn't like the store when I was young, although the christmas catalog and a sharpie was fun. As an adult, bought a good deal of appliances there.

In the end they are all gone for a good reason. Graduating college I already knew that music was going to go to digital MP3's. I was pretty sure that video would go that way, I just knew home internet would need to go to broadband, I didn't vision it changing as fast as it did and it being supplemented by high speed mobile.

The stores, They were dinosaurs. It's all but impossible to pay employees to staff the store, pay rent and still keep prices as low as Amazon. It's all too easy to click and check out and have the item two days later at your doorstep. Fry's demise sucked. In the end I'd be bored, wanted to go somewhere to browse and get away from the family for an hour. Slowly the shelves emptied, then they just selling as seen on tv crap. The last time I went they had mattresses for sale.

Great memories, for all different stages of my life, but I don't think I'd go to many of them any more.