To: Red in Blue PA
Well, that’s too bad, but they have changed over the years and they are not the electronics/hobbyist store that they once were. Perhaps there was no market in that any longer.
3 posted on
02/02/2015 5:17:03 PM PST by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Star Traveler
Poor service didn’t help.
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4 posted on
02/02/2015 5:17:59 PM PST by
Mears
(there wasn't much conversation about it.)
To: Star Traveler
I agree, they changed and not for the better.
There is a massive market for maker stuff and they could have gone back to their roots and catered to that market with 3d printing and built on that.
8 posted on
02/02/2015 5:20:36 PM PST by
DarthFuzball
("Life is full of little surprises." - Pandora)
To: Star Traveler
my hearing aid has as many components within chips as an old radio shack store.
the fact is radio shack is obsolete
9 posted on
02/02/2015 5:21:01 PM PST by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
To: Star Traveler
They are no longer what they were. It is nothing more than a toy store. I gave up on them and do all of my electronics shopping at Digi-Key and Mouser.
13 posted on
02/02/2015 5:24:54 PM PST by
mazda77
To: Star Traveler
There’s a great and growing market, but it’s being served my new companies run by millennials. Meanwhile RS was competing vs. the phone company.
16 posted on
02/02/2015 5:29:40 PM PST by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: Star Traveler
hobbyists would be making things like Raspberry Pi’s instead of buying them online.
21 posted on
02/02/2015 5:34:58 PM PST by
GeronL
To: Star Traveler
There probably is still a market, it was just smaller. They should have specialized and had one store per city than to be like everybody else and be in every mall.
26 posted on
02/02/2015 5:38:38 PM PST by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: Star Traveler
Has to be it. How many of our yutes even know what a soldering iron is, or a resistor, capacitor, tube, breadboard, etc.
28 posted on
02/02/2015 5:44:32 PM PST by
SgtHooper
(Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
To: Star Traveler
If the clerk doesn’t know what a crystal radio is, it ain’t a Radio Shack.
56 posted on
02/02/2015 6:31:39 PM PST by
ctdonath2
(Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
To: Star Traveler
Amazon and Internet pretty much killed them.
66 posted on
02/02/2015 6:54:20 PM PST by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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