radio shack is history :(

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delisted from the stock exchange. in bankruptcy deal sprint will reopen half of their stores as sprint stores. no more radio shack. I have all their catalogs back to 1976. what a nerd I am

The RS on the corner has been pushing phones and satellite services for about a decade. Their salespeople are completely ignorant of electronics, and haven't a clue as to how any of their products actually work. They may as well "come out of the closet" and admit that for the last 20 years, they have been nothing more than just another glorified phone store with some 1980s kitsch laying around.

I will miss their DIY electronics kits (circuit boards with resistors, conductors, etc.); but, other than that, they were pathetic.

just that yet another part of my youth is gone. I used to work there.

I'm also sad that they're gone. I like that old jingle that was on radio and TV when I was a kid.

Can't wait....Radio Shack
Can't wait....Radio Shack
Can't wait....Radio Shack
Can't wait....Radio Shack
Can't wait

I remember begging my dad if he could take me every time he went and he would always give in and say, "Yes."

I remember when they were the place to go for electronic type stuff.

You know what other store I don't see around any more? Western Auto.

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the last radio shack store where I live closed down a decade ago. I figured the end was coming when the rural locations closed.

You know, I think I still have one of those kits with all the different colored wires you could hook up to a board and make cool electronic stuff. Ahh, Memories!

much of their electronics were made per spec by foster electronics of japan. I have a good selection of their stuff.

I have always been under the impression that they sell average goods for premium prices. Maybe even less than average goods.

For the last twenty or thirty years they always want your name for the transaction. I can see that for some purposes such as if it is something that might be returned under warranty, but not all.

I went into the nearest one one day to get a new battery for my bicycle speedometer/odometer. He asked for my name and I told him he didn't need it -- just sell me the battery or I'll go elsewhere. So the clerk bent over and typed in a few things and sold me the battery.

As I was walking to my car, I looked at the receipt and where my name and address would have been if I had given it to them was my oldest brother's name and address! I went back inside and asked the clerk how he did that. He said that he just picked a name at random.

One Radio Shack employee told me that they ask for the name and address because it helped solve some kind of crime once. I found a description of it on the Internet. For example, see http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/1993/07/28/shay_guilty_in_fatal_91_blast/ in which Thomas A Shay and a friend of his built a bomb and attached it to his father's car. The father saw the bomb and called the police. The bomb went off and killed one police officer and seriously wounded another.

Apparently if you don't give your name and address and so they'll just use someone else's name and address. While not likely, if they were to randomly choose your name and address to use on someone else's sales slip and the other person did something illegal with it, you might end up becoming a suspect in a major crime.

Anyway, the attempt at justification does nothing to justify the fact that they were pushing for name and address on every sale for many years before that.

I always bought their stuff when it went on sale.

my 40 year old set of nova 6 speakers still works fine

They were a place that peers, and I to a certain degree, loved to hate.

But did not know they were going belly up.

Now that you mention it-yeah I will miss them.

they really started to go downhill a few years ago, when they briefly called themselves "the shack." not that this was the cause, just a marker in time and/or a sign of their desperation that they would borrow a bit of circuit city {RIP} marketing shtick.

I feel old, now that they're gone. I feel as though a piece of my childhood just died, this morning.