RIP Radio Shack, Toys R Us, Sears, K-Mart, KB Toys, Borders, Charlotte Russe, Sports Authority, and Sport Chalet. Gone but not forgotten.

What I have learned from this series: Amazon and Walmart are the deaths of literally every store in existence

I owned a Radio Shack franchise from 1984-1997, store 22-A592. Sold it at the end of Fed 1997. They started hiring people to run the company who had no idea what Radio Shack was about. Shortly after I sold my store, the company got all the stores to put almost all of the small items, capacitors, resistors, audio adapters and plugs, etc, into these big drawer cabinets. I KNEW they were history at that point. Sure enough........

I got a Radio Shack digital multimeter for xmas from my dad. It was the last thing he bought me before he passed away. After 20+ year's I still have that digital multimeter and it's still working great.

Even 2000’s kids remember radio shack...

Thanks, Jake for covering Radio Shack in your series.  I worked for Radio Shack for 10 years from 1979 to 1989, very BIG years for the chain, and a very important 10 years in my life. I managed 4 different stores over that time, 3 in Southern California and 1 in Seattle, before I left the company (well, I left sales, then ended up as the District Secretary for the Seattle stores for almost 2 years).  Watching your video was very cathartic for me. I guess there's been some closure that I've never really dealt with, and it really helped to get a good cry over seeing the loss of a place I took great pride in working in, and winning sales awards during my time as a store manager. I loved working with my fellow salespeople, and loved helping customers, but middle and upper management definitely didn't "get it".  I found the knowledge level of the salespeople was severely lacking over the years, and I usually ended up helping a customer when I'd be in a store, shopping for myself.  I had the know-how, and was glad to share it. I miss that part a LOT.

I was the very last customer of my local radio Shack before they closed. I bought a 90 % off HDMI cord. I still have it unopened.

Man, Radio Shack was such a great store.

........Right up until they decided it would be an amazing idea to dedicate 90% of every store to phones which I can find in every damn store in the world...and then I had no reason to go in there again.

I lived in Scott City Kansas for a little while. They have an open  Radio Shack in town. Original, never cosmetically updated, never closed, never changed ownership. Truly a living relic.

So wait... If Hobbytown bought the rights to use Radioshack and are opening new stores with that name, does that mean it's still possible Radioshack will get to see its 100th anniversary?

I was pretty sad when this happened. I grew up playing with their R/C cars and loved seeing all the neat things in their stores.
As an adult I'm now a ham radio operator and have acquired 2 old R.S. brand ham radios and they still work!

The biggest loss was the types of products that Best Buy, etc don't offer and never offered - actual discrete electronic parts, such as resistors, transistors, switches, PC boards and enclosures, and all sorts of related stuff. You used to be able to walk into an RS and buy just about anything like that. During their last few years, it became just a tiny corner of the store. Now, there is nearly nowhere to buy any of that stuff, at least in-person.

jake, i have a concussion right now and im supposed to limit my time looking at screens. ive been so bored just having to sit here and rest. thank you so much for your interesting videos that i can listen to without having to look at the screen.

What pisses me off is these competing stores only offered competition in certain areas.... RADIO SHACK WAS MUCH MORE THAN JUST   TV, DVD, Stereo store... Radio Shack carried electronic components such as resisters, coils, timers, and an endless line of other amplification components. Soldering wire etc....  People who actually built things from scratch went to Radio Shack.... They weren't "entertainment stand" shoppers...  They took the store serious and went there for the real things Radio Shack sold and had on the shelves.  Radio Shack was replaced by people who sold electronics BUT NOT electronic accessories ... and test equipment etc.... REAL ELECTRONICS! If I can't walk into a best buy and buy anything Radio Shack had....  Then what good is Best buy? Best buy is nothing like Radio Shack...

YOS, THE GOD OF COVERING ABANDONED THINGS HAS RETURNED!!

I remember saving up my money to buy a Soundblaster 16 sound card for my computer, at Radio Shack.

My god that sounds old now.

I stopped going to Radioshack because they stopped selling parts.

Imagine how fun it would have been to work at RadioShack in its final days. You and your worker buddies could hang out, watch tv, and get paid for literally nothing since nobody ever came in

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