!! Me and my brother got remote control cars there when we were little but that was it and lmao @ playbox.

That explains why all of them are closing over here

So sad when I was a kid that's where I went to get all my components for school projects, resistors, timer chips, capacitors, transistors, circuit boards, etc.

Aw. I hate seeing **** close down

What kinda projects did you have to do as a child. Sounds traumatizing

I made a transistor audio amplifier for my phone so I could have it on speaker. I had to break up the phone do it my parents were not happy but it worked. It was pretty cool it had a little pot on it so I could adjust the volume and a switch to turn it on and off. I was about 9 years old.

I started using breadboards around 11 years old because I it was easier to plug everything in without using solder and I could just reuse everything once done.

Then I got a Z80 chip at school and I start working on hardwiring computer code to make, clocks, timers, random lights blinking stuff like that. I was going to be an EE, that’s all I really thought I was going to be until I got my first computer at age 13. Then I was exposed to programming and I just stopped doing the electronics. I attended community college on Pell Grants when I was around age 15 I remember taking Assembly, COBOL, Pascal and FORTRAN ugh. So I actually got my 2 year degree as I was finishing HS.

I was a little mad scientist.

one of them literally just opened up a mile from where I live only 2 months ago.

I've never seen this store before

No RadioShack store closings here.... yet.

Most stores were in less than prosperous areas anyway. That might have been part of their problem.

In other retail news:

Staples and OfficeDepot are planning a merger less than two years after the latter bought out OfficeMax.If approved, there will only be ONE chain of Big Box office supply stores.

Caldor returning as an internet store

Dollar Tree buyout of Family Dollar

I've never even heard of that

I bought my first Blackberry from RadioShack, their impact