Radio Shack. And not the recent version. The OLD version with breadboards and soldering irons and electronics kits.
I remember being in high school and going in there to buy resistors and shit.
We were in there once or twice a month getting solder and random assortment of components for little home projects we had going. The workers also knew how to help and always had suggestions for the projects we were doing. I remember the day we (grandpa and I) went into the store and realized it wasn't the same anymore. Only a small selection of components and the whole front was full of RC cars and random expensive electronic gadgets nobody asked for. We only went back once or twice, but it became evident that we can't find what we were looking for there anymore. We started sourcing our parts from overseas vendors for fractions of a cent per unit, but we had to buy in bulk. We stopped doing those small projects because it was taking too long to get components and the cost was out of hand with thousands of unused components in boxes in the project room taking up space. Well, made myself sad for the morning.
That would be my pick as well. I still have a few of the free CueCats they gave away. After some easy modding, I use one to scan the barcodes of my books to add to a database on my comp. I miss old RS so much.
Okay i was gonna be for toysrus but damn. I want that store to exist in my life right now.
Radio Shack
No one else has electronic components
Fry's. Some Microcenters. Al Lashers.
Fry's also gone.
None of these ever existed in my country, except for Toys "R" Us, which still exists.
RadioShack, with the drawers of capacitors and resistors.
The drawers are the best everywhere. RadioShack? Component drawers. Home Depot? Fastener drawers. On and on.
Old Radio Shack, not that thing from 2015 that was functionally a brick and mortar cellphone stand.
Yes the old radio shack not the new one which was just a 3rd party cell phone carrier.
Circuit City. I grew up on CompUSA but CC had better prices, if I remember right from my childhood. Then CU died, then CC died, then FE died, now all we have is shitty BB.
My CC I got to go 'in the back' to watch then replace a psu that died and I correctly diagnosed, back in like... 03? Two techs for the store, super chill, talked me through the process. I've been building and repairing my own systems ever since. They told me to let them know when I was 16, they'd put in a good word for me after we chatted for about an hour. By the time I could legally work, the writing was on the wall, and CC died before I turned 17.
I wonder where those guys are at now. I thought I knew what I was doing, but they were so kind in explaining everything, answering every question, giving me confirmation about all sorts of stuff. I really hope they are doing well. They couldn't have been mid-20s at the time.
I loved Radio Shack for the same reasons. I learned so much from the guys that worked there. I might buy something that only cost $5 but they would spend 30 minutes with me explaining how to fix issues that I had.
Fuddrucker’s
i'd bring circuit city back so i could piss on it and burn it down
How about independent pharmacies
ToysRus I guess. Never been to or seen any of the other ones.
Aren't some of those still open?
Last I checked there's a Radio Shack in Los Alamos. Uncanny vibes, but it's there
The radio shack brand got bought up by the guy who did the "I'm in my garage" ads and now is a front for a crypto exchange.
It's a completely different company using the shell of Radio Shack for brand recognition
I know some who still works for RadioShack in KS. It’s official RadioShack but also it’s its own thing. Idk maybe a franchise or something.
Party city closed this year. Corporate raid, like toys r us.
wouldn't they all die again though? i'd bring back hh gregg for the song
Toys R Us. No contest.
Old!radioshack gets a pretty good case made for it elsewhere in yhread, or I'd agree with you.
a restaurant called bravissimo in chile or something like that was called, i remember eating there as a kid, it was colourful and kinda funny looking.
What is a Friendly's?
That is the one I miss. It was an ice cream shop/ restaurant.
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*).
The only of them that we had in Germany: Toys'r'us.
Objectively the right choice.
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