Report: RadioShack to close all stores, sell half to Sprint

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[E. Pluribus Unum]

The end of an era.

[Oliviaforever]

It is odd that Radio Shack could not make money by selling TRS-80 computers and giving away batteries.

[raccoonradio]

[sickoflibs]

I bought my first good stereo from RS in the 1970s.
In fact I think the speakers had the RS logo on them.

It was big for CB radios and police scanners, mostly obsolete now.

[NorthMountain]

[raccoonradio]

Spoof of the chain done to the tune of B52’s Love Shack, performed by Guns and Moses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4XU6A7AWbg

[oh8eleven]

Damn, feels like losing a friend.

[Gay State Conservative]

Sad....a part of Americana disappears.

[Veggie Todd]

Now where will I buy my resistors and capacitors?

[doorgunner69]

Might as well sell to Sprint. If you go in to buy something, you wait forever to get to the counter as idiot cell phone buyers tie up the clerks.

[Gamecock]

Why does Radio Shack ask for your phone number when you buy batteries?

[WXRGina]

Bummer ping

[KarlInOhio]

Will I still be able to get switches and 1kohm resistors from Sprint? That was about the only electronics parts they had left last time I shopped there. They also used to have a keyring full of power connectors, but that may have been something on local store put together so you could tell if you needed a 2.1 or 2.5mm barrel connector for your computer.

Generally they've had poor selection and high prices, a deadly combination when competing against the internet.

[MAKOTHEDOG]

It is the end of an era for sure but this is not surprising. They have been a glorified cell phone store for awhile now.

I did buy my batteries at RS. I could never understand how they could be so inexpensive. I did buy some DeOxit from RS last year. As I was doing that the counter clerk was setting up a cell phone plan for a customer.

[Enlightened1]

Fry’s is the new Radio Shack.

There stores are huge.

http://www.frys.com/

[lightman]

They’ve been basically nothing but a cell-phone store for the past decade.

The prepaid-service phones on their racks brought out the ghetto filth and that’s when I stopped shopping at the Shack.

[TexasRepublic]

Sad, I spent most of my money there during my youth.

[Rio]

[Dr. Sivana]

The Battery of the Month club, a free 5 “D” cell flashlight every Christmas, Flavoradios, Archer and Optimus products, SuperTape, ConcerTape, 3600’ 7” reels of tape, the Elton John endorsed mini-Moog, the 100-in-one kit, P-box kits, compact cassette repair kits, Norelco boxes, diamond and sapphire needles, Ham Radio books, inferior roftop antennas . . . good memories.