Radioshack fs, bring back the idea of repairing your shit to the public mind
1980s-90s RadioShack, yes.
They really went off the rails during their decline. They became a cellphone store, and not at all a good one… Their pricing on EVERYTHING was not only non-competitive, it was ludicrously expensive.
RadioShack, and it’s not even close.
The same old 555 timers, opamps, and LED PCB xmas trees they’ve been selling for 30 years are nice but…there’s much more interesting shit now and they didnt seem to catch on to that until the very end when they suddenly rushed out all the Arduino shit.
Around here, Micro Center replaced Radio Shack for my component impulse buy needs, and they even have Adafruit and Sparkfun stuff, and several aisles of a variety of other hobby electronics stuff. It’s RadioShack x100.
As someone who tinkers with electronics, hard agree
I was born in 2001, what is RadioShack?
As a kid, it was where you got all the coolest remote controlled cars and helicopters (pre drones). As an electronics tinkerer, they had drawers full of components and other parts for all electronic needs.
80s RadioShack for sure. I miss that place so much.
I think people are forgetting that Blockbuster video was the shitty megacorp that killed all the charming local, independent video stores.
Those stores had personality. I miss that experience.
Blockbuster felt corporate and bad.
Jesus. Imagine how much of the world would react if
1: jesus literally proved he existed to faiths that say he’s a hoax (im agnostic btw)
2: He reforms the groups that use his name as a pretext to exclude & marginalize others.
3: Dude turned out to have been gaming like a boss in heaven, like dude comes down & faces the pope in Dungeons & Dragons or Pokemon lmfaooo
Plot twist: he gets crucified, again.
- World Christian churches split into at least 2 additional factions per each existing faction (Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, whatever orthodox, and whatever else exists). Each having a slightly different view on the new Jesus dude.
Nevermind if Jesus turns up to be non binary I expect a meltdown then.
- He could turn water into wine.
Jesus. He is slated to return one day anyway but we need him now to show republicans what christianity is all about
Amen brother.
I miss having knowing there’s a Radio Shack around the corner if I need an obscure component or an exotic battery for a project.
Yeah, you can find anything online now, but you have to wait for it to ship, hope it doesn’t get lost or stolen, and hope they actually sent the right part.
Edit to add: Basically 80-90s RS, not the husk that it was more recently that sold mostly phones and crap toys around the holidays.
Definitely Jesus. I want to eat popcorn while I watch Christo-fascists and the prosperity gospel crowd hysterically calling Jesus a terrorist because he took a flamethrower to their vile McChurches.
It would almost be worth going to hell as a nonbelieving heretic if I could see Jesus actually return and start whipping republicans and evangelicals through the street while they decry him as a child grooming liberal homosexual communist.
RadioShack was great when every electronic was analog and you needed some random VGA to RCA adapter at 9pm on a weekday
There’s also an absurd amount of gamer girls entering the space thanks to “cozy desk TikTok” who get a lot of micro electronics and foreign imports, mechanical keyboards, etc. All they would’ve had to have done was offered pink custom keyboards with jade keycaps and make a hobby out of it, and it would’ve been game. Shoot you could even have sold cat ears in the same section.
Yeah and batteries.
And a capacitor to fix your TV.
RadioShack. Without a doubt.
As someone who worked at RadioShack, I would only want to bring it back if we could have owners who care about electronics and technology more and making profits less. I got to live the decline as they tried to become a cell phone store, and then got destroyed by big box stores and provider stores in that market. RadioShack would need to stay in its lane. Electronics, home theater, computers.
If you have a MicroCenter in your area, it will have all this for you, tho, so I honestly would pick ToysRUs. There just isn’t a real “fun focused” retailer anymore. Even adults could feel like kids at ToysRUs.
Toys r Us still alive in Canada!
That narrows things down. Let’s bring back the J man and he can disown what his followers have become
Also, RadioShack in spirit - it’s called The Source now and it’s on the death knell, but they’re still around.
also is South Africa!
Surprisingly, I might pick Blockbuster. Having even just one streaming service costs the same as like 8 rentals per month. Idk about the rest of you, but I think I watch more movies than most and it’s still not 8 per month. And remember video game rentals?! Game Pass and PS+ Extra are amazing, but the selection is far from endless.
And it’s kinda win-win. I’d bet anything that revenue for these media companies would rise since it would be cheap enough and convenient enough to curb some amount of piracy. It’s just not worth the effort and risk for lots of people if they can just pop in for a rental while they’re already out for groceries. Redbox should be more successful, but there’s something about browsing in person through aisle after aisle and seeing what jumps out, and it saddens me that my generation may be the last to have had that experience.
Yeah except their prices would have increased with everything else if they survived
Yeah? Well, back in my day we could get bread for a nickel and the music was really about something.
I’m just kidding, you actually make a very good point lol.
You can still rent movies via Google Play, for cheaper in today’s money than then, it seems.
if you thought it was good and it dissapeared then you will feel nostalgic for it
I believe you 100% (and piracy is even cheaper) but browsing in person is something I truly miss. And it makes sense for digital access to be cheaper because there’s nothing to rewind/wipe clean and no need to replace stock that breaks/gets lost/gets stolen. I hear you in that it’s faster and more convenient to go digital like that, but there’s something almost therapeutic about taking your time and walking and using your hands. It’s intentional. It’s active. It’s a whole thing. It’s like the difference between getting fast food from a drive through versus walking through a few blocks of a city and choosing a good restaurant and sitting down and enjoying a cultivated experience. I know I’m exaggerating the impact, but not by as much as you might think.
you mean blockbuster to it’s former glory if you want blockbuster back just go on a roadtrip to some small town if you still have rented blockbuster movies put em there im not even american so id have to take a flight or a very long boat ride and a roadtrip to get there. i am gonna reply with were the last blockbuster is
there’s two i found on google maps most likely to be open: https://maps.app.goo.gl/V5tuDbCR3QiT5VJy7
and https://maps.app.goo.gl/VoWYDWxTFvRMMGRu8 it’s temporarily closed at the time of typing this it may not be open
…are there other choices?
Jesus, that way he can end the world before global warming kills us all.
Look the promise was no more worldwide flooding…
