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by samueldr 1460 days ago
The author is likely Canadian given their current biography snippet.

There were Radio Shacks in Canada, before they ended up being renamed The Source in 2004[0]. So in 2009, the year cited in the article, they would have gone to "The Source", but likely still thought of it as Radio Shack, the old name of the chain.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Source_(retailer)

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Ah yes, that's most likely it!