Good, they can go to hell.
Every time that I bought something from them they demanded my address and phone number...even a $2.00 purchase. Left a REALLY BAD taste in my mouth. I also wasn’t too hot on the prying eyes of their salesmen. I can go to Fry’s (and Amazon) and look at the same stuff and be left alone.
It’s their business and if they want to make people like me HATE THEM, they are perfectly welcome to do just that...and needless to say, I don’t have to shop there.
They built their business on men who would build things. Hobbyists, tradesmen, engineers. Those men are all gone now.
no camera stores either. used to go to the leather craft store on 11th or 12th street in philly a long time ago as well. by habit went rs for every electronic thing i needed. antennas resistors capacitors and other stuff. i just don’t buy them any more. last time i was there i was looking for replacement earphone type buds as i don’t like the buds. i’m going to ask congress to enact the disappearing craft store law next week/s
I will be sad to see RS go. There is one two miles from house and the closet BB is ten miles north or ten miles south. Fryes is 20 miles away I am in an electronics desert.
True RS does not have everything, but in emergencies one can usually a phone charger, a splitter, various kinds of components. Probably not any better than Walmart, 15 miles away, but smaller, quieter, easier to get to the parts without kids howling.
Amazon is great if one has a day or two, but with RS one could basically pull off the highway in any small town and grab something.
I loved Radio Shack in the ‘60s and ‘70s. By the ‘80s, the unique product line had already begun to fade and their annoying marketing data interrogatory at every purchase had become policy. I’ll miss what they once were, but the current company has long been a hollow shell.
Radio Shack is still in business???