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A bit sad to see them go. I worked at a Radio Shack in grad school. Having an Extra class ham license and First Class Radiotelephone license made it easy to build a very large body of regular customers. It was a job I could work around my grad school classes. I left Radio Shack and moved to Marine Electric Company in San Diego. I earned 3x the hourly wage and had plenty of fun plying my technical skills in the field. In time, I moved to PacBell. Another 3x on pay and more technical work. Finally, I moved to my current employer. Many of my contracts required EE/CS tasks...and Radio Shack was still there to provide the odd parts on field trips. Digi-Key, Mouser and Spark Fun get more attention now. AdaFruit as well. There are fallbacks, but they are all online order and wait for the package.