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RadioShack is dying

MissUtilisMissUtilis
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It's been dying for years now, here's an article on them...they didn't file for bankruptcy then, but probably will soon: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-04/radioshack-said-to-be-filing-for-bankruptcy-as-soon-as-tonight-i5rbx9wy

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  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    It's sad, but honestly i think they've done well to hang on this long.
  • Yarrun XIXYarrun XIX
    Whores! we want "poems that kill."
    Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
    guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
    and take their weapons leaving them dead
    It has survived for too long off of the backs of employees it mistreats. Good bleeding riddance
  • HavenHaven
    Let me tell you. About Fallen London.
    Perhaps the same could be said of all retail.
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Most but not all. Some companies are worse than others. But one may exploit without explicitly mistreating.
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    die monster you don't belong in this world
  • CorvinaCorvina
    Vampire Lady of Corvidia

    (The other Jane)
    Imipolex G said:

    die monster you don't belong in this world

    It was not by my hand that I am once again given flesh. I was called here by humans who wish to pay me tribute.
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    Haven said:

    Perhaps the same could be said of all retail.

    radioshack was bad even for retail though
  • MissUtilisMissUtilis
    BEWARE OF GRRL!
    http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_27468723/radioshack-files-bankruptcy-protection-sell-stores
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    i kind of wish i could go down to pick out the wires and op amps and shit i need, but i can buy those things online apparently
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i have no idea what it was like to work in one, and i've never actually been in a radio shack

    but it was my perception that these things were an important part of an earlier, DIY-ish tech culture at one point and were then muscled out by monopolism and abuse of patents

    idk, i know nothing really
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    well, anyway
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg
    Tachyon said:

    i have no idea what it was like to work in one, and i've never actually been in a radio shack

    but it was my perception that these things were an important part of an earlier, DIY-ish tech culture at one point and were then muscled out by monopolism and abuse of patents

    idk, i know nothing really

    RadioShack is more what replaced those DIY-ish tech culture shops in the first place.

    Though it is probably the only commonly-around place you can reliably purchase a shortwave radio at.
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    ah
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    i kinda like radio shack stores for some reason
  • MissUtilisMissUtilis
    BEWARE OF GRRL!
    RadioShack feels like a '90s relic, in a bad way

    The one nearest me, though, closed in about 2005

    ...and there is a RadioShack in the 16th Street Mall, to which I say "huh?"
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Miss Utilis said:

    RadioShack feels like a '90s relic, in a bad way


    The one nearest me, though, closed in about 2005

    ...and there is a RadioShack in the 16th Street Mall, to which I say "huh?"
    It always gave a way older than '90s vibe, to me.
  • MissUtilisMissUtilis
    edited 2015-02-06 01:28:28
    BEWARE OF GRRL!
    the logo I associate most closely with them is from 1995 though

    and RadioShack always felt to me like the poor man's Circuit City or something
  • MissUtilisMissUtilis
    BEWARE OF GRRL!
    and trust me there are few things more '90s than Circuit City
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I still associate them with this one:

    image

    ...agreed that Circuit City is totes '90s though

    Also I was somewhere the other day where there was a near-untouched old Circuit City but now I can't remember where it was
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    i don't think you could buy wires at circuit city

    like just copper wire, not usb ccables and such
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    As a young 'un I went to Radio Shack in the 80s - early 90s. My dad used to like it. So that's what it means to me. yntkt
  • ButtwangsButtwangs
    BE ATTITUDE FOR GAINS
    Shit, where am I going to get my silly electronic stuff now? :<
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    off the interwebs?
  • eriophora ziaeriophora zia
    I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    Honestly, almost all the stuff I've bought at radioshack has had a miserably short lifespan. I'd be happy to buy, say, those tape-to-aux converters from them (since I don't like waiting for shipping to listen to music while driving), but BOTH the ones I bought at a radioshack barely lasted two weeks before going kaput. Of different brands, too. I also got one of those little cigarette lighter car plug ins to make them usb compatible and even *that* borked within a month. 

    Amazon just allows me to buy things that actually WORK and don't BREAK. 

    And even besides that... Radioshack has really terrible policies on how they treat their employees. 
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    The only things i can think of off the top of my head that came from RadioShack actually worked decently for me.  A cheapo voice-activated tape recorder that still kinda-works over 15 years later (you have to lay it flat though).  A male-to-male audio cable that I presently use to connect my cell phone to the car.  My parents' old cell phones (though those were more so LG brand than RS brand).

    That said, pretty much anything from Best Buy is substitutable for stuff from RadioShack.

    Though RadioShack stores, being smaller, tend to feel like nicer shopping experiences than Best Buy, where there's just a lot of stuff going on all around oneself.
  • MissUtilisMissUtilis
    BEWARE OF GRRL!
    RadioShack always felt really cramped and limited to me
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I feel the need to post this:


  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I do wonder if that's Billy West voicing George in that ad
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    welp
  • TreTre
    image
    I miss Circuit City a lot.

    My dad worked there when I was a wee lad in both Winston-Salem and early on in Raleigh, so I look back on the brand fairly fondly because it was where I got my first exposure to the world of consumer electronics.

    On the whole, Best Buy (and maybe h.h. gregg or TigerDirect) is okay to scratch the itch it left, but it's not quite as satisfying.
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    is anything?
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    you know what electronics store I miss more though? CompUSA
  • TreTre
    image
    As far as RadioShack goes, I don't have quite as much nostalgia for it as I do for Circuit City, but I'm still kinda sad to see it go because it was also partially responsible for my lifelong fascination with tech.

    We still have a headphone splitter from our local store floating around somewhere...
  • TreTre
    image
    Anonus said:

    you know what electronics store I miss more though? CompUSA

    well, there is TigerDirect, its immediate corporate successor

    our local Tiger actually went by the CompUSA name for a while before switching back


    I wonder how PC Richard and Son is doing, I haven't seen it around because it was mostly a thing when I lived in Jersey...
  • MissUtilisMissUtilis
    BEWARE OF GRRL!
    late with this but: http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/26/news/companies/radioshack-name/
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    oh wow
  • BeeBee
    I think the only thing I ever bought at Radio Shack was a new battery for an old GBA game.
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