Remember RadioShack?
They still have an online store.https://www.radioshack.com/
Are you tell me that radioshack doesn't exist as a physical store in America? I just bought this at my local radioshack
>>106504561If you're in Latin America and the Caribbean, RadioShack still exists as a company with a different owner, same reason why stores named Woolworth's still exist in Australia and Mexico, or why Sears has a different logo in Mexico from the one in America.
>>106504246Are they done with the nigger ads?
This looks bad, someone needs to read /gd/
>>106504777RadioAck
>>106504656So, what happened to radioshack in America?
>>106504246Why couldn't RadioShack pivot to a more general tech store by selling computers and phones or something.
I love paying $5 for 50 cents worth of components
>>106505035They should have given up the zoomer techslop and gone back to manufacturing and selling components/tools for electronics hobbyists. That and good prices would have saved them.
>>106504303I still can't see people in there.
>>106505119>selling components/tools for electronics hobbyistsIt's impossible to compete against Amazon, AliExpress, DigiKey, and other online retailers these days. No brick-and-mortar chain store will ever have a catalog of parts as big as any big online retailer.
>>106505219true but people will shop at brick and mortar places just for fun and to meet other hobbyists. it's the model nerd hobby shops use, even GW does it (they host games and paint sessions and such in addition to just selling you individual soldiers for 99.99)
>>106505219I don't buy shit online, and many people don't either. There's still a need for places like that (true we're not talking Amazon tier market here, but still). There's something to physical stores that I continue to enjoy. Pretty sure they'd still be arround in some form.
>>106505035>selling computers and phonesThey do it... in Latin America
>>106504246There still is one a couple hours away from me, I've been meaning to go for years but never get around to it
>>106504246take me back
>>106505026Went bankrupt. What else?
>>106506628But why? People here love radioshack
>>106507034americans are larpers and dont actually buy electronics equipment/parts
>>106507034Kek, overpriced portable speakers in public transportation. Third world shithole mentality.
Excellent.
Physical stores can't exist in the US because you walk in with a specific need - let's say you need a USB cable - and the moronic wageslaves just look at you like cattle and say "this is what we have". You never can find what you need, so you shop online and stay there.
>>106507115DEI. It wasn't like that when the white man was in charge.
>>106507086They sell laptops, tablets, smartphones, consoles and video games, smart tvs, accessories, etc. And their speakers are cheap.
>>106505035>Why couldn't RadioShack pivot to a more general tech store by selling computers and phones or something.They did exactly that, and it wasn't the solution.https://blackfridayarchive.com/ad/radio-shack-2010/page-1
>>106504246Remember Dick Smith? I'm talking about the true electronics store, not the neutered jb hi wannabe crap.
>>106504303In Australia they traded under the name Tandy Electronics and at their peak in the early 80's would have had about 100 retail stores. Initially they catered to hobbyists well with kits and even discrete components. Eventually it evolved into a glorified toy store and declined from there
>>106508493Same in the UK. I used to buy caps and transistors there, when I needed one or two extra for a project and couldn't be bothered to put together a mail order.
>>106504246It's shutting down again? I thought it only just got relaunched.
>>106508348Probably before my time, I remember it being like JBhifi when the very first Android phones were hitting the market.
>>106508348Whoever told me to do math didn't know what I was being put into, now I understand what even numbers can do!!!
>>106507134you are actually stupid
>>106504246yeah and there's a reason they caved
>>106508348remember dick smith's fun way into electronics books?
Everyone had some random RadioShack pink and green 3.5mm audio splitters in their junk drawer at one point in their childhood home
>>106509828>had a 3.5mm splitter that I kept for years in its packaging>easily 10-15 years>at some point i decided to use it for something iw as doing>dug it out of a box of old cables and other shit>opened package to use it>plastic housing disintegrated to dust as soon as i touched it>all that remained was the metal frameCoolest shit ever
>frys closed here years ago>microcenter still hasn't taken its place>microcenter also refuses to ship
