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To: Libloather

I miss Radio Shack.


2 posted on 09/28/2025 11:19:55 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“””I miss Radio Shack.”””

Can I get your phone number??


5 posted on 09/28/2025 11:29:03 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I also miss Radio Shack.


6 posted on 09/28/2025 11:33:29 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

> I miss Radio Shack. <

Me too. I taught physics for many years. And sometimes I would need a specific resistor for a demonstration, let’s say a 5 ohm one.

If I didn’t have one, I could fill out a school purchase form, then send it up the line. Then I’d get my resistor in about three months.

Or I could go down to my local Radio Shack, and buy a two-pack of 5 ohm resistors for a dollar.


11 posted on 09/28/2025 11:48:44 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Radio Shack.

Where can we go now to get the cassette player head cleaning fluid with little Q-tips?

Not to mention the DVD rewinders on sale.
They used to be somewhere in the back of the store, I think.
Never found them.


15 posted on 09/28/2025 11:51:08 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

me too


36 posted on 09/28/2025 12:10:16 PM PDT by al baby (Whoopie Cushion Goldberg )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“I miss Radio Shack.”

Back when they actually sold electronic parts.


46 posted on 09/28/2025 12:17:36 PM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I worked at Radio Shack many years and had quite a bit of RS stock. I had to sell my stock years later. At the time it was the largest retail company in the world.

Alas.


49 posted on 09/28/2025 12:24:47 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I worked at Radio Shack many years and had quite a bit of RS stock. I had to sell my stock years later. At the time it was the largest retail company in the world.

Alas.


50 posted on 09/28/2025 12:24:50 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Radio Shack/Tandy should be a business school study in how a chain with a proven formula deviated from what works for trying to grasp what doesn’t work.


71 posted on 09/28/2025 2:05:30 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Me too. Radio Shack was unique, plus I was a part timer there for a couple years.
Someone should start up a similar store. I’ll bet computer components would sell big.


79 posted on 09/28/2025 2:46:29 PM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Me too. Radio Shack was unique, plus I was a part timer there for a couple years.
Someone should start up a similar store. I’ll bet computer components would sell big.


80 posted on 09/28/2025 2:46:33 PM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I miss Radio Shack.

Me too. When my oldest was a toddler he had a play pen that played music. LOUDLY A Radio Shack rheostat made the sound adjustable for about $4.

I’m sure I could order one from Amazon, but that is not the same as being able to rummage through the parts drawers until you find a part you’re sure you can make work.

98 posted on 09/28/2025 7:16:22 PM PDT by Pilsner
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