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Helen Borg

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8. Well, the stores had become a joke...

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Wed Feb 5, 2014, 06:56 AM

Feb 2014

The last time I set foot there was when I realized that pretty much all the boxed items you buy there is defective stuff previous customers had returned for some reason. And they keep giving it to people until finally one person is too busy to take it back.

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RadioShack to Close About 500 Stores Within Months [View all] bananas Feb 2014 OP

Shit. There goes my computer emergency bits and pieces store. Warpy Feb 2014 #1

And they were just starting to find their way again... Crash2Parties Feb 2014 #2

With me it's audio. Hope mine stays open. mwb970 Feb 2014 #10

i thought they already did the rebranding? pothos Feb 2014 #3

RadioShack completely lost their focus... now just another Cell Phone store selling 'other stuff'. TheBlackAdder Feb 2014 #4

+1 davidpdx Feb 2014 #5

I would like to agree with you... sendero Feb 2014 #7

"electronics hobbyists" are going to the source. pocoloco Feb 2014 #14

plenty of new genderation hobbyists Crash2Parties Feb 2014 #31

I went there last summer looking for one common capacitor snooper2 Feb 2014 #17

Don't know if they still do this, but I used to be able to drop off a malfunctioning PC djean111 Feb 2014 #6

i still have my A500.. i should set it up! dionysus Feb 2014 #32

Well, the stores had become a joke... Helen Borg Feb 2014 #8

The last time I went to one, there was no sales person on the floor KurtNYC Feb 2014 #24

My prediction is when they close these 500 stores that's just the start bigdarryl Feb 2014 #9

It's the only place where you can pick electronic parts like you can in an old-style hardware store. BoneDancer Feb 2014 #11

Another Texass based company that's been hollowed out and will now be tossed aside, Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #12

But, but Super Bowl ad featuring stacks and stacks of Beats Audio gear? onehandle Feb 2014 #13

Two words: "Circuit City" Prisoner_Number_Six Feb 2014 #15

A Circuit City store closed here RebelOne Feb 2014 #29

Used to be able to get nilesobek Feb 2014 #16

I've wondered for a long time how they managed to stay in business... olddad56 Feb 2014 #18

if i need something fast noiretextatique Feb 2014 #22

Mobile Phones. mwooldri Feb 2014 #23

Uh Oh. My son-in-law works there. progressoid Feb 2014 #19

One of my friends used to go to Rdaio Shack to steal their employees KurtNYC Feb 2014 #25

I think there stores are a product of the franchisee gvstn Feb 2014 #20

Years ago they had a store closing and I bought a bunch of stuff from the components cabinets for Erose999 Feb 2014 #21

I got caught up in the Super Bowl ads Politicalboi Feb 2014 #26

There's one a few minutes from me Nye Bevan Feb 2014 #27

I'll miss them. shenmue Feb 2014 #28

I bought my tv from them a couple of years ago. Liberalynn Feb 2014 #30