Radio Shack store closings

[Tilted]

Radio Shack announced yesterday that it will be closing up to 1,100 of its 5,000+ store locations. It did not provide a list of locations that will be closing.

Anyone still shop there?

 

[Pete]

In the last 10 years I think I bought a spool of wire and some crimp splices. My $9 was not enough to save them.

 

[vraiblonde]

I can't remember the last time I was in a Radio Shack.

 

[Bay_Kat]

My husband and I went into one last week, they didn't have what we were looking for. The shelves were so screwed up, thing were stacked on top of each other so you couldn't find what you were looking for if they did have it.

 

[slotpuppy]

Radio shack used to have all the odd-ball stuff you couldnt find anywhere else. They are like a miniature best-buy now.

 

[DoWhat]

But isn't Radio Shack the place that people get their Obama phones?

 

[Tigerlily]

But isn't Radio Shack the place that people get their Obama phones?

I would not doubt it. I went into Radio Shack looking for a computer printer. They had zero printers. It was 95% cellular sales and the back area was bare bones with hardly anything.

 

[czygvtwkr]

Last year when I was cell phone shopping I decided on the phone I wanted, did a price comparison on line and RS was the cheapest by $50 on the AT&T phone I wanted so I got my phone there.

 

[LibertyBeacon]

In the last 10 years I think I bought a spool of wire and some crimp splices. My $9 was not enough to save them.

I went looking for some capacitors and the PFY showed me an Optimus stereo rig. Then another time I needed a serial cable, and they wanted $25. No thanks.

Good riddance.

Radio Shack: You have questions. We have dumb looks.

 

[Bay_Kat]

But isn't Radio Shack the place that people get their Obama phones?

That would explain the group I saw standing around the cell phones looking as giddy as a bunch of school girls.

 

[glhs837]

Hmmm, about two months back, got my project box for the fermentation chamber temp regulator. Some soldering supplies maybe six months ago, and I'll need more soon as I need to rehab an whole vehicle wiring harness. Crimp barrels, some heat shrink. I'm hoping to get all I need for my project to convert an old computer power supply into a bench 12 volt power supply.


http://www.wikihow.com/Convert-a-Computer-ATX-Power-Supply-to-a-Lab-Power-Supply

 

[Toxick]

Anyone still shop there?

I buy components for electronics there. LED's, switches, resistors, transistors, potentiometers, etc.

 

[Toxick]

But isn't Radio Shack the place that people get their Obama phones?

If this is true, we should be able to cry racism, and get them to not shut the stores down.

 

[SoMdDude]

I buy components for electronics there. LED's, switches, resistors, transistors, potentiometers, etc.

www.microcenter.com

The store in fairfax has just about everything any radio shack ever did... love going in there!

 

[Vince]

But isn't Radio Shack the place that people get their Obama phones?

That will save Radio Shack fer sure.

 

[Larry Gude]

Anyone still shop there?

Guitar stuff; jacks, soldering supplies. Adapters.
Work stuff; toggle switches, various replacement parts.

 

[stgislander]

I remember back in the late '80s/early '90s, waiting around in the morning with other engineers and techs from Pax River, for the store in St Mary's Square to open. We used to joke about purchasing Mil-RS (Radio Shack) components.

 

[StadEMS3]

Went by the Charlotte Hall one the other day to pick up a switch and it was closed up and empty. Spoke with the girl in the Waldorf store next to Sports Authority and she's not sure if her store or the St. Charles Mall one is closing. I hope it's the mall one, I hate going in there.

 

[molly_21]

Last year when I was cell phone shopping I decided on the phone I wanted, did a price comparison on line and RS was the cheapest by $50 on the AT&T phone I wanted so I got my phone there.

That is the only reason I still go into Radio Shack is because they usally have the phone I want for cheaper when I do upgrade.

 

[Misfit]

Almost Everything in Ad Can Be Replaced by an iPho

http://www.mactrast.com/2014/01/almost-everything-1991-radio-shack-ad-can-replaced-iphone/

if you look closer, as he did, you’ll find that almost everything the items in the full page ad could do can be replicated by the iPhone!

I don't know if this was already posted but I'm loo lazy to look...