RadioShack declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy

[Southern Dad]

[Philly]

An iPhone can now perform all the functions of the entire contents of this ad

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-cic ... 12973.html

[NAB]

I'm going to need Radio Shack to provide me with their name and address before they can purchase this bankruptcy. Most annoying store ever.

[Southern Dad]

[John Galt]

well tbf what was nice about radioshack wasn't their gadgets. it was in the back corner and had all sorts of components. while it's easy enough to order online, it's harder to figure out what you need online than browsing those drawers

[NAB]

[Professor]

[Southern Dad]

The Radio Shack in our town is in an office furniture store. Over the years, I've seen the RS take up less and less square footage. In Dahlonega, the RS is in a pharmacy.

[Winchester]

We used to have one many moons ago during the Trash 80 days. I learned about computers on one of those during HS.

[Spider]

The real RadioShack was slain by the internet years ago.

Its been a silly cell phone store for quite some time. I went in a couple years back for a simple USB cable, and they didn't have the sort I needed, and a good thing too as the others were something like $20. Plus, the components section had been reduced to a single file cabinet sized set of drawers. The sap they had working there simply couldn't care less about anything.

When I was a kid I used to scrape together change to buy little motors and LEDs and piezo disks and such. Good times.