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Radio Shack Swirling the Drain

Tuesday, 4 March 2014, 18:02 BFH Home 0

They are shuttering 1100 stores. That’s a lot of Shacks.

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33 Comments on Radio Shack Swirling the Drain

  1. I’m a bit of an electronics aficionado, and I can tell you as a long-time customer of theirs that I don’t even know what they sell anymore.

    Hell, I needed replacement fuses for a widely popular amplifier and they told me they “aren’t in that business anymore”.

    Which is weird, because nobody else is, either.

    Some shithead MBA decided that they need to sex up the place and drive out the pocket-protector types, and now all they sell are mobile phones and car chargers for mobile phones.

    And down the tubes they swirl.

    Now that’s what I call “Revenge of the Nerds”.

  5. I went there today for an oddball adapter which I cobbled together from things they did have… This is what I’ve usually used them for. American business is sinking as the Dems set more charges in America’s hull.

  7. Well doggone. The Hulkster, ALF, Dee Snider and House Party are going to have to find additional means of income. Wonder what will happen to Michael J. Fox and the DeLorean?

  11. Radio Shack hasn’t kept up with the times. Electronic geeks used to build radios and amps. You could buy tubes and leading edge hardware of the day. Now it’s all things computers and phones, with considerable crossover between the two. Is there one item for building a computer there? Is any radio built for the broad market using tubes. Of course not. I replaced the resisters and a other items in my 60″ projection tv. Could I get it at Radio Shit No. I sent off to Texas for the replacement kit. And projection tv is already 2 generations out of date. Radio Shit is now a place to buy a phone, like there aren’t already a thousand places to get those, remote control stuff and other end user products. They screwed up their brand and are doomed.

  20. High priced junk sold by low rent knuckleheads who can’t tell a radio from a small soap dish. Toys, cell phones and annoying personal questions. Hey, I thought we were the ones with questions that they had answers to!
    I stopped going there after trying to buy a jack with a $5.00 bill.
    The dweeb sez: I need to see your ID.
    I said no you don’t, here’s 5 dollars, check me out.
    I need to see your ID.
    No – You – Don’t! Check – Me – Out!
    The store rules say I have to see your ID
    Well this went back and forth one more time before I walked out.
    You don’t have to be a genius to figure out why they’re going down the toilet!

  22. Overpriced phones and some knickknacks. That’s all I’ve ever seen.

    Aren’t they the ones that caught some shit for selling NASA some overpriced stuff in the 80’s or 90’s? I wonder which Congressdouches cashed in on that deal?

  23. Oh…well, the Shack in my town is run by a guy who rebuilds old timey radios. So he’ll sell you tubes and junk but just not through the Radio Shack half of the store. That only sells RC helicopters CB radios and repair kits for slot car racers.

    So yeah, I hang out there a lot. This old guy who rebuilds radios, builds all year and then drives out west for the Rose Parade & fooball game where he sells his radios for hundreds of dollars to aging yuppies.

    It’s a brilliant scam.

  25. Rip Shack used to sell those Archer kits where you could build your own electronic “whatever”, using the componenets, PC boards and chassis’ in the kit. They worked about 1/2 the time.

  27. Gazing into Lucifer’s Crystal Ball at the Apocalypse.

    When CB Radios are the only means of communication, you’ll wish Radio Shack was still around. 😉

  30. When i was at University getting my EE degree i worked at RS.
    Very expensive place to buy
    parts. I used other electronic parts distributers when i would make a bulk purchase. When I would build a switching amplifier, ham radio gear,etc.
    RS price for a two pack of resistors was 50% higher.
    When you need a part this second it’s great for that. But only for that.

  31. I’d STILL shop there if they sold giant unbreakable globes… or even CB radios!

    I’ve NEVER needed a cellphone, or… “accessories”… 🙄 – and I can buy the SAME batteries cheaper at Wal-Mart.

    If anybody at the store over the age of 30 (WHO am I kidding?! I have SOCKS older than their cashiers and ‘sales associates’…) actually knew where the term “radio shack” came from, I’d faint dead away.

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