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
>>106504246yea, it sucked. glad aliexpress replaced it
>>106504246Yeah, it was expensive. That's why I stopped going.
Remember Dick's Red Owl?
>>106504246No.
>>106505026Incompetent leadership basically. Nobody knew what the fuck they were doing after Chuck Tandy died. It was a K-Mart tier zombie company since the late 80s.
>>106505035That's literally what they did did you not step into a radioshack in the last 5 years or so if it's US existence?
>>106504561A small number of Radio Shack independent dealers still exist, selling their remaining stock of RS branded products. >>106505026Tandy Leather, the company that spawned Radio Shack, still exists. They had a location in my town that they converted into a Radio Shack in the 80s and converted back into a Tandy Leather about twenty years ago.
>>106509653This is a very odd way of saying he's correct.
>>106513063>A small number of Radio Shack independent dealers still exist, selling their remaining stock of RS branded products.I thought RS was a different corp, mostly doing b2b component sales.
>>106515481The name Radio Shack has passed hands a couple of times since the bankruptcy. Even when Radio Shack had thousands of locations, in some places the Radio Shack wasn't owned by the company, it was a local electronics store that was licensed to sell Radio Shack products. When Radio Shack went out of business, those independent dealers stayed in business because they were never owned by the company. Some of them continued to sell whatever stock of Radio Shack merch they had and then eventually took the name off their sign. Others loaded up with Radio Shack merch that was sold in the bankruptcy sale. At one point some of the dealers were talking about forming a co-op to have new products produced to replenish their dwindling stocks but I'm not sure if that happened or not as it would mean licensing the name from the current owner. All of that is a long about way of saying that it is still possible to buy Radio Shack stuff at a Radio Shack dealer, if you can find one in your area.
>>106504246Best friend worked there well into the 2000s. He sold cellphones too and make a ton of commission off of those. So many boomers would visit out of nostalgia. Some things they were affordable desu. >>106506500I remember taking trips to buy spindles of CD-Rs because they sold them cheaper than anyone else.
>>106509937I remember when frys was packed in 2014-25 because people were buying mining gpus to mine eth and other shitcoinsI was there, good items. A lot of those people probably had a lot of dogecoin and cashed out.This world is so fucking stupid fake and gay lmao
>>106505219The problem with the big online retailers is that the many of individual sellers are dishonest, and there's no vetting process for them.
>>106505035I remember them selling phones and phone plans. Obviously that didn't work, nobody really needs a phone plan NOW, like you don't realize oh crap, I need to run down to radioshack to buy a cell phone, at least not in the modern age.It should have stayed as a hobby store. With all the "maker" shit happening now they could have capitalized on that and added 3d printers and computer parts and hosting events and some other stuff and they might have made it.I've been to a microcenter, clearly the brick and mortar business model still works for them, and the place is always packed.There's been many times when I wanted to have a single small component as soon as possible but there's nowhere to do that now.
>>106504561It mostly hasn't since like... 2007, right before Obummer took over RS went under. All the local stores (which were dead) basically were killed.
>>106516922>With all the "maker" shit happening now they could have capitalized on that and added 3d printers and computer parts and hosting events and some other stuff and they might have made it.They tried a bit, but it was a small amount of pre-made and branded stuff like snap circuits.They also tried to sell a baffling variety of radio controlled vehicles but they were ALL the super shitty ones. Why not try to sell a real one that a serious person could enjoy? Nope, just the garbage.
