2008-07-17

Radio Shack

I used to like Radio Shack. It was kind of a nerd haven. You could find all matter of useless stuff in there. Piezo buzzers? Check. Random resistors? Double check.

But I went into one last night and it was a shadow of its former self. The shelves were mostly cell phones, cell phone power chargers, cell phone headsets, and two Xbox 360s. Its like RS is trying to be like Best Buy. But BB can leverage its size to offer a wide variety of goods. RS could never compete especially since their stores are so small. What in the world is going on here?

2 comments:

Chris said...

Sad to hear... I was going to stop in last week for a DC-DC converter IC. I bet they don't even have them anymore.

C said...

Don't expect them to have Molex-to-SATA power adapters!