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by hn8305823 748 days ago
It looks like we are at risk of losing another valuable brick-and-mortar resource. We already lost Radio Shack.
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By the time Radio Shack actually closed, it wasn't a loss. They mainly sold toys and phones.

The Radio Shack of the 1970s/1980s, yes I do miss having a store like that in town.

A lot of rose-tinted glasses come out with respect to Radio Shack. They were the least bad source of local cables etc. and they did have some history in ham and some electronics components. But for a lot of their history they had a bunch of crap stereo and toys and latterly cell phone offers.
Fry's was the one that hurt the most.