I also forgot about the free battery of the month club until mentioned above! 
The TRS80 was my first computer as a kid.
I think I'm in a minority, I like getting in the car and going to a specialized store. Radio Shack used to be such a cool place to go as a kid. Buy parts to make radios, the kits with all the wires, and springy things to at hook the wires to, etc...Which I still have a bunch of those kits boxed away.
I know it's a thing of the past, but I hate going into a walmart or a Home depot, walk around all over the place not to be able to find what you want anyhow, I'd rather going to a smaller specialty type store. But radio shack really had nothing in parts compared to the past. The one here has 3 people in there working most of the time and no one buying in the store, I can't believe they hung on this long!
I caught the tail end of everyone using "radios". I think that may have been what they originally started in. Not really sure. Every construction company, retail store, or whatever used radios. Even the home radios that I use to see as a kid I think are dead. The ham and CB type stuff everyone had. Now, everyone has the net and cell phones.
