Quoted from Otaku:

I heard Radio Shack used to have MUCH more of a selection. Now you can't get jack shit there for specific applications besides some fuses and a generic LED .

Quoted from jeffspinballpalace:

Thought Radio Shack had already been shut down. Where are people buying their radios these days

Quoted from ForceFlow:

Some of the gadgets and curiosities they had over the years were neat. Anyone remember this guy?

Quoted from Markharris2000:

In an odd twist, Radio Shack still lives online! They were purchased along with a dozen other store names, each got an online catalog of stuff, and each website is basically using the same template, just different merchandise. RadioShack, Pier1, LinenNThings, Modells, SteinMart and others are all part of this odd family of properties now owned by the same company. Each does business online, but a quick look at the merchandise will disappoint any traditional radio shack fan.

Quoted from Zitt:

What is really scary is this meter and most like it have NO FUSES. :S

Quoted from thepinballworks:

Radio Shack used to give away things at Christmas time.
I still have this, never used it.
I sure do miss them.
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Quoted from Markharris2000:

I forgot about the TANDY connection! There were SO many RS locations around the country where TANDY LEATHER would be next to Radio Shacks, and it wasn't until later that I realized that there really WAS a corporate connection.... TANDY LEATHER picked up Radio Shack in the 60's and called the business adventure TANDY ELECTRONICS, and they had a number of brands including ARCHER and REALISTIC and MICRONTA and a few others. Even the TRS-80 was a whim because they were already lost as PCs took hold...

Quoted from timarnold:

This is just WRONG!
A "truckload of trucks" goes against everything science fiction has taught us about the rules of nature. It is unholy. Why not sell a "trunk full of elephants? How about an ass shaped smoke-eater ashtray and call it a "butt load of butts?"
I guess I should have expected suck trickery from a company that no longer sells Radios and no longer has any "Shacks".
I used to be a loyal Radio Shack customer, going all the way back to the Tandy days. I still carry my battery-of-the month club card in my wallet. It used to be a genuine treat to go into a PHYSICAL STORE with rack after rack of stuff that would give a young A.V. geek a stiffy. I learned resistors in series from one of your breadboard kits. Our first computer was a TRS-80. You used to have a staff that knew the product, was allowed to have an opinion about what they were selling, and like their customers, smelled like week old bread.
One thing that I always wondered about "The Shack" back in the day. You sold all manner of high tech gadgets, but you never had a CASH REGISTER. The clerk would write a receipt on a duplicate book, and put the money in a wooden drawer mounted under the counter. WHY???
Perhaps it was a money laundering operation for the mafia controlled PINBALL BUSINESS!
All kidding aside, I really do miss you guys. Now I have to go on-line and buy shitty Chinese made solder, tools that fall apart the first time you use them, and out of date and dried out capacitors.
I have composed a poem, as a tribute to what once was....
Archer and Enercell in a tree.
K I S S I N G.
First come Antenna Craft, then comes marriage.
Then comes Realistic pushing a baby carriage.
From: RadioShack <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2021 4:05 PM
To: pinball hall fame <[email protected]>
Subject: Truckload Of Trucks

Quoted from johninc:

It was your phone number they wanted!