Micro Center Expands with New Store Openings
PC hardware vendor Micro Center is on a retail tear, opening new stores and expanding its footprint across the U.S. as America's largest brick-and-mortar electronics retailer, Best Buy, retrenches due to bleak PC sales. The expansion comes as more international players like Amazon and Curie enter the U.S. market with their own retail outlets.
Micro Center, which began as a small shop in Columbus, Ohio, back in 1979, has previously announced plans to open three new stores by the end of 2024. After the first of these new outlets opens in Indianapolis this summer, the locations for the final two stores have now been revealed, and they’re coming to Miami, Florida, and Charlotte, North Carolina, in the very near future.
Once all three new stores are up and running, Micro Center will boast a total of 27 outlets across 19 states in the U.S. The Charlotte store will open in early 2024 at 4,744 South Boulevard, providing 35,700 square feet of space. The Miami location, meanwhile, will open later in the year at 7,795 W Flagler Street and should provide 31,700 square feet of space filled to the brim with PC hardware, computer systems, electronics, and maker gear.
As you can see from the images above, the stores will feature much the same layout as the company's most recently opened outlet, in Tustin, California. Micro Center has already dusted off its prefab cookie-cutters and set up store pages on its website for all three locations, too.
If you're living in any of the cities and want to be the first to know when the new stores open, you can already sign up for a mailing list on the Micro Center website. You’ll receive a coupon for a free 128GB USB Flash drive the moment the stores open their doors, too.
PC building, hardware, and content creator Hector 'Sabretooth' Granados first shared the news about the new Micro Center stores on Twitter. The video he attached shows a tour of the Tustin outlet and gives viewers an idea of what they can expect if they ever set foot inside one of these shops themselves.
The comments section below the video is filled with folks who used to shop at a local Best Buy, but after it closed in their area because 'there weren't enough customers,' they feel forced to pull out their PCs and work out of their homes or a local library. If only local libraries could stock Radeon VII Extreme cards...
