[Coco] Radio shack layoffs, store closing, etc... Goodbye, and thanks for the memories?

[Frank Pittel]

While the closing of Radio Shack is sad. To me it's just that an iconic
business is closing down. I haven't shopped at RS in a very long time!! I
used to love the place but at some point they changed the focus of their
business. When during the later part of the 80s when they started selling
toy like crappy radio controlled cars I saw that as the end.

For components that I can wait for I go to newark and if I need it right
away I go to Frys or Microcenter. I understand that there aren't many of
those stores but newark delivers fast and the prices are incredible if you
buy in volume. As memory serves 1/4 watt carbon resistors are $.01 each if
you buy in qty of 100 and the 2n3904 and 2n3906 are $.10 - $0.15 ea if you
buy them in 100 qty. (depends on manufacturer.)

Frank

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Tim Fadden <t.fadden at cox.net> wrote:

> On 3/9/2017 11:00 AM, Richard E. Crislip wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 20:14:35 -0600
>> Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> During my time at Radio Shack (88-91?) they had over 7000 stores in
>>> the US.
>>>
>>> Remember Olsen's Electronics and Layette?
>>
>> Yes I remember Lafayette I think is closer, seems it had an f in it .
> That was my favorite.  It seamed it catered more to the tinkerer,
> experimenter than the Shack.  Along with Allied Electronics, it was my
> favorite.
>
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