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.
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.
If they’re like they were in their heyday (innovative computer tech), RadioShack for sure.
Radio shack for sure. Has anything electronic or computer related you need.
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
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!
RadioShack
Toys R Us was really special for me as a kid. Especially when my local one ran yugioh tournaments.
How about independent pharmacies
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.
Aren’t some of those still open?
Party city closed this year. Corporate raid, like toys r us.
You say that but I’ve seen both of those stores open in the last 6 months.
I know party city was closing out their inventory earlier this year.
Toys r us… I know it doesn’t exist here anymore. Hasn’t for a while. Where did you see one?
There is one at the American dream mall in New Jersey. They are also starting to pop-up in some Macy’s as their own section.
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.
Movie store. Movie night was magical.
Tower Records and/or Borders Books & Music.
