If they’re like they were in their heyday (innovative computer tech), RadioShack for sure.
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Radio shack for sure. Has anything electronic or computer related you need.
RadioShack
Movie store. Movie night was magical.
Fry's
I miss Fry's. It was nice if you were building your own PC to go in and get parts immediately. Amazon with their unfair no-taxes that crippled big box stores and mom and pop's, and Netflix for videos by mail (remember getting DVD's in the mail?) and then streaming began wiping out most of these, except Friendly's.
I literally joined this thread to say what you said
Missing Fry's buddies!
That's not even a question, the spirit of radioshack with 2025 technology, that would be awesome !
We have a few around me still. One in my town and one in the neighboring town. A bit pricey but I try to get what I can there since a best buy just opened up near them.
I just want to be able to run down the street to buy a pack of overpriced unmarked capacitors anytime I need.
As someone who used to be an Assistant Manager at Blockbuster...keep that thing dead and gone. Like as a consumer, sure I get it, but working there absolutely sucked. No one remembers the late fees or the fact Blockbuster would send you to collections for ONE late fee (like a whole $3.25) and then send you those bullshit cards in the mail letting you know that you owe them less than $5? yeah I remember cause on a near daily basis I'd get someone in the store yelling at me that they're trying to get a loan or a house and this little card is fucking it all up for them. MOST of the time the late fee was because the absolutely ancient computer system we used that they never updated...at all...since the 80s...would skip barcodes randomly on scans. That or some vengeful employee at another store would just manually add fees to someones account (yes that was possible, yes we could just add fees to random accounts willy nilly)
also my District Manager was a douchenozzle. Mike, rot in hell.
Friendlies still exist I saw one just a month or two ago
I live 5 minutes from a friendlys and 15 minutes from another. They're still out there
Toys R Us was really special for me as a kid. Especially when my local one ran yugioh tournaments.
Umm I don't think we need more massive monopolise gaint corporations
Do I have to?
RadioShack, with the drawers of capacitors and resistors.
I could see them have an entire section for RC cars and drones today.
And maybe bring them back with a good assortment of PC parts, too.
Old Radio Shack, not that thing from 2015 that was functionally a brick and mortar cellphone stand.
Sadly the new one is all I have memories of
Aw man you were robbed! RadioShack used to be seriously amazing, a hobbyist's dream.
My condolences.
Yes the old radio shack not the new one which was just a 3rd party cell phone carrier.
The drawers are the best everywhere. RadioShack? Component drawers. Home Depot? Fastener drawers. On and on.
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How about independent pharmacies
Radio Shack. And not the recent version. The OLD version with breadboards and soldering irons and electronics kits.
We were in there once or twice a month getting solder and random assortment of components for little home projects we had going. The workers also knew how to help and always had suggestions for the projects we were doing. I remember the day we (grandpa and I) went into the store and realized it wasn't the same anymore. Only a small selection of components and the whole front was full of RC cars and random expensive electronic gadgets nobody asked for. We only went back once or twice, but it became evident that we can't find what we were looking for there anymore. We started sourcing our parts from overseas vendors for fractions of a cent per unit, but we had to buy in bulk. We stopped doing those small projects because it was taking too long to get components and the cost was out of hand with thousands of unused components in boxes in the project room taking up space. Well, made myself sad for the morning.
I remember being in high school and going in there to buy resistors and shit.
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Aren't some of those still open?
I know some who still works for RadioShack in KS. It’s official RadioShack but also it’s its own thing. Idk maybe a franchise or something.
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a restaurant called bravissimo in chile or something like that was called, i remember eating there as a kid, it was colourful and kinda funny looking.
An obligatory "Fuck Blockbuster:" They sucked compared to the local rental shops.
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None of these ever existed in my country, except for Toys "R" Us, which still exists.
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We still have Toys R Us and Party City here, and they seem to be doing fine. Blockbuster isn't really needed anymore. Old school Radio Shack would be pretty cool though.
Hello fellow Canadian
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