In a day when almost any purchase consumers make starts out with a click online, a retail store that sells computers sounds like a dinosaur — one that should have gone extinct around the time that Tower Records (2006) and Blockbuster video (2010) did.
Rather, the parking lot in front of Micro Center, in a paleolithic shopping center at East Quincy Avene and South Tamarac Drive, has a packed parking lot on weekdays and is literally jammed on weekends.
Inside, 13 checkout registers have a screen overhead that directs customers to an available station — but there are often another 20 people waiting in line, many with carts carrying large boxes…