[Samurai_Jack]

I want to go to Radio shack for resistors and capacitors like I used to. Haven’t found anything I can use at rs in decades. Maybe a battery.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Do they still have transistor radios there?

[SkyPilot]

Now, where did I put my Alice Cooper records?

[usconservative]

Yup, "back in the day" I could walk in and buy whatever transistors, resisters and project boxes and breadboards I needed to build a project. I remember when they even carried tubes for my amplifier! "Lifetime" tubes that they replaced every 6 months FREE when they burned out!

The good old days when Radio Shack was actually relevant. Now they just sell everyone elses junk cellphones and stupid RC junk.

[GingisK]

Haven’t found anything I can use at rs in decades. Maybe a battery.

Well, there are those battery holders that you have to wrap a rubber band around to force it into contact with a battery.

In its "hay day" RS sold ICs for six times the price you could get the same ones elsewhere. They were always for use in a "builder's emergency".

They do have one thing of quality I haven't found anywhere else: a five-way binding post that plugs into a banana jack.