In November 2025, Micro Center opened a 35,000 square foot electronics store in Phoenix with about a hundred employees.
Six months later it reopened its North Jersey store after a remodel that added a bigger build-your-own-PC department and a desk where a technician helps you assemble a computer while explaining what you are doing.
Three months after that it reopened the original Columbus store.
This is a big-box electronics chain spending money on floor space in 2026. Which, if you have been paying attention for twenty years, is roughly like reading that somebody is opening a video rental store.
Except the numbers say they might be right, and one government price index explains why.