https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/26/frys-touts-black-friday-deals-despite-low-stock/

Many shelves at Fry’s continue to be bare, and employees are sometimes hard to find in its large stores. But the Bay Area-based electronics chain says it “has you covered” for the holidays.

From its birthplace of Silicon Valley to Southern California to its other locations around the nation, speculation abounds about whether the retailer will survive in the age of Amazon and amid the U.S.-China trade war. But Fry’s this week circulated a press release inviting customers to shop online on Thanksgiving, and urging people to sign up online to take advantage of promo codes and its deals on Black Friday, when it will open stores at 8 a.m. instead of the usual 10 a.m.