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There was a lot of stuff going on in the corp level that really caused a lot of the problems with supply of goods.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Former-Fry-s-executiv...

Wikipedia has a lot more detail about him. Basically a Fry’s VP arranged for $65 million in kickbacks from companies that wanted to see at Fry’s, and then gambled away even more than that, and ended up $137 million in debt:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ausaf_Umar_Siddiqui

That's for the insightful Wikipedia link!

Really speaks to the mismanagement how an individual can receive tens of millions in kickbacks and no-one else in management identified the fraud.

I wonder how many other companies such behavior is happening in.

That reminds me of how TigerDirect ended up [0]. There's another one I sorely miss, especially since there was one store that was a ten-minute drive for me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TigerDirect#Founders_convicted...

I guess almost the same as CompUSA (maybe not as bad as CrazyEddie's tough). Bad/corrupt management. BestBuy tough had and has a much much broader client base and does not have to carry the large number of SKUs.

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