RadioShack
You can only bring back one. Which do you choose?
Submitted 8 months ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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MITM0@lemmy.world 8 months ago
stoly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Radio shack for sure. Has anything electronic or computer related you need.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
If they’re like they were in their heyday (innovative computer tech), RadioShack for sure.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Fry’s
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Blockbuster. Movie night was magical.
Kaput@lemmy.world 8 months ago
www.toysrus.ca/en/home It Still is in business
shrewdcat@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
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.
P1k1e@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I literally joined this thread to say what you said
shrewdcat@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Missing Fry’s buddies!
Tx8664@startrek.website 8 months ago
Toys R Us was really special for me as a kid. Especially when my local one ran yugioh tournaments.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Do I have to?
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
That’s not even a question, the spirit of radioshack with 2025 technology, that would be awesome !
HiddenLychee@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
GroundedGator@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I just want to be able to run down the street to buy a pack of overpriced unmarked capacitors anytime I need.
rozodru@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
Therobohour@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Umm I don’t think we need more massive monopolise gaint corporations
Surp@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Friendlies still exist I saw one just a month or two ago
Briguy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I live 5 minutes from a friendlys and 15 minutes from another. They’re still out there
qbus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 8 months ago
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.
Jackcooper@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How about independent pharmacies
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Aren’t some of those still open?
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Party city closed this year. Corporate raid, like toys r us.
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
You say that but I’ve seen both of those stores open in the last 6 months.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
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.
AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Last I checked there’s a Radio Shack in Los Alamos. Uncanny vibes, but it’s there
Maven@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
The radio shack brand got bought up by the guy who did the “I’m in my garage” ads and now is a front for a crypto exchange.
It’s a completely different company using the shell of Radio Shack for brand recognition
Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The only of them that we had in Germany: Toys’r’us.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Objectively the right choice.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Tower Records and/or Borders Books & Music.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Toys R Us. No contest.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Old!radioshack gets a pretty good case made for it elsewhere in yhread, or I’d agree with you.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
I thought they were already opening some stores.
shrewdcat@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
What is a Friendly’s?
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
That is the one I miss. It was an ice cream shop/ restaurant.
shrewdcat@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Oh, ok. thank you for the info.
levzzz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Freddy fazbear’s pizza
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fry’s electronics
falidorn@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fry’s had been a living corpse for a decade. You’d have to go as far back as Circuit City to actually get the Fry’s you remember.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Even the zombie version of Fry’s was better than most of the alternatives (cough Best Buy cough).
Grabthar@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Hello fellow Canadian
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Greater Vancouver area has gone from like 6 toys r us to 1, don’t think they’re doing too fine
Grabthar@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Right, I forgot the Orleans one closed this winter. Ot actually seemed to be well stocked, too. 3 to go in the area, I guess.
MrBadApple@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Friendly’s still exists, it’s just regional now though.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I was like, “Friendly’s is dead?” for a terrifying second before I read this 🥹
Actually I was like 5 the last time I ate there so it’s really not that special to me but happy they’re not dead yet. Started my love for gummy bears in ice cream.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They’re still about as good as you remember. I.e. my five year old thinks it’s the best thing ever.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Probably none of them, I prefer MOM-and-pop shops
DerArzt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not a lot of mom-and-pop electronic components shops near me (zero total) so RadioShack.
klemptor@startrek.website 8 months ago
RadioShack, with the drawers of capacitors and resistors.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I could see them have an entire section for RC cars and drones today.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And maybe bring them back with a good assortment of PC parts, too.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 8 months ago
The drawers are the best everywhere. RadioShack? Component drawers. Home Depot? Fastener drawers. On and on.
ohshittheyknow@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Yes the old radio shack not the new one which was just a 3rd party cell phone carrier.
Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I want DYI kits for everything!
Bahnd@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Old Radio Shack, not that thing from 2015 that was functionally a brick and mortar cellphone stand.
knexcar@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sadly the new one is all I have memories of
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Idk what these places did, (double it and) give it to the next person