That’s not even a question, the spirit of radioshack with 2025 technology, that would be awesome !
Do I have to?
Toys R Us was really special for me as a kid. Especially when my local one ran yugioh tournaments.
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.
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
Umm I don’t think we need more massive monopolise gaint corporations
How about independent pharmacies
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.
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?
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.
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
RadioShack, with the drawers of capacitors and resistors.
And maybe bring them back with a good assortment of PC parts, too.
The drawers are the best everywhere. RadioShack? Component drawers. Home Depot? Fastener drawers. On and on.
Yes the old radio shack not the new one which was just a 3rd party cell phone carrier.
I want DYI kits for everything!
Old Radio Shack, not that thing from 2015 that was functionally a brick and mortar cellphone stand.
Radio Shack. And not the recent version. The OLD version with breadboards and soldering irons and electronics kits.
Okay i was gonna be for toysrus but damn. I want that store to exist in my life right now.
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.
Yes please!🙏
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.
Toys R Us. No contest.
Old!radioshack gets a pretty good case made for it elsewhere in yhread, or I’d agree with you.
I thought they were already opening some stores.
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.
Radio Shack
No one else has electronic components
Fry’s. Some Microcenters. Al Lashers.
Fry’s also gone.
