RadioShack, with the drawers of capacitors and resistors.
Old Radio Shack, not that thing from 2015 that was functionally a brick and mortar cellphone stand.
Sadly the new one is all I have memories of
My condolences.
Aw man you were robbed! RadioShack used to be seriously amazing, a hobbyist’s dream.
Yes the old radio shack not the new one which was just a 3rd party cell phone carrier.
I could see them have an entire section for RC cars and drones today.
The drawers are the best everywhere. RadioShack? Component drawers. Home Depot? Fastener drawers. On and on.
I want DYI kits for everything!
And maybe bring them back with a good assortment of PC parts, too.
That’s not even a question, the spirit of radioshack with 2025 technology, that would be awesome !
I just want to be able to run down the street to buy a pack of overpriced unmarked capacitors anytime I need.
We have a few around me still. One in my town and one in the neighboring town. A bit pricey but I try to get what I can there since a best buy just opened up near them.
If they’re like they were in their heyday (innovative computer tech), RadioShack for sure.
As someone who used to be an Assistant Manager at Blockbuster…keep that thing dead and gone. Like as a consumer, sure I get it, but working there absolutely sucked. No one remembers the late fees or the fact Blockbuster would send you to collections for ONE late fee (like a whole $3.25) and then send you those bullshit cards in the mail letting you know that you owe them less than $5? yeah I remember cause on a near daily basis I’d get someone in the store yelling at me that they’re trying to get a loan or a house and this little card is fucking it all up for them. MOST of the time the late fee was because the absolutely ancient computer system we used that they never updated…at all…since the 80s…would skip barcodes randomly on scans. That or some vengeful employee at another store would just manually add fees to someones account (yes that was possible, yes we could just add fees to random accounts willy nilly)
also my District Manager was a douchenozzle. Mike, rot in hell.
Radio shack for sure. Has anything electronic or computer related you need.
I miss Fry’s. It was nice if you were building your own PC to go in and get parts immediately. Amazon with their unfair no-taxes that crippled big box stores and mom and pop’s, and Netflix for videos by mail (remember getting DVD’s in the mail?) and then streaming began wiping out most of these, except Friendly’s.
I literally joined this thread to say what you said
Missing Fry’s buddies!
Friendlies still exist I saw one just a month or two ago
I live 5 minutes from a friendlys and 15 minutes from another. They’re still out there
RadioShack
An obligatory “Fuck Blockbuster:” They sucked compared to the local rental shops.
This is probably true, but I remember Blockbuster was good at renting out trash movies. While Netflix does this also, some of them no streaming service wants to or can pick up today. Like the old Mario movie or the weird Red Riding Hood movie with Henry Cavill. That being said, I still wouldn’t bring it back.
Toys R Us was really special for me as a kid. Especially when my local one ran yugioh tournaments.
How about independent pharmacies
We still have Toys R Us and Party City here, and they seem to be doing fine. Blockbuster isn’t really needed anymore. Old school Radio Shack would be pretty cool though.
Hello fellow Canadian
Greater Vancouver area has gone from like 6 toys r us to 1, don’t think they’re doing too fine
Right, I forgot the Orleans one closed this winter. Ot actually seemed to be well stocked, too. 3 to go in the area, I guess.
Fry’s electronics
Fry’s had been a living corpse for a decade. You’d have to go as far back as Circuit City to actually get the Fry’s you remember.
Even the zombie version of Fry’s was better than most of the alternatives (*cough* Best Buy *cough*).
Idk what these places did, (double it and) give it to the next person
Toys R Us. No contest.
I thought they were already opening some stores.
Old!radioshack gets a pretty good case made for it elsewhere in yhread, or I’d agree with you.
