RE: The Slow Death of the Electronics Store
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I wish I would have lived in a bigger city to have store like this when I was a kid. I absolutely love Radio Shack and it was like a candy store for me. I as well would take apart everything I could get my hands on just to see how it worked. In fact, I ended up working for Radio Shack for three years when I got older. I hated the retail aspect of it, but I loved the electronics part of it. I learned so much working there. I was really sad when they went bankrupt and all the stores closed up. There are still some franchise stores here and there, but all of the corporate ones are gone. The one I used to work at sits empty with the sign still over it, but nothing inside. It sucks not being able to just run down the road and find the diode, fuse, or resistor you need. I stopped going to Best Buy a long time ago. They were just so overpriced.
A good friend of mine worked in a Radio Shack back in the early 90s, right after high school. I remember being super jealous of him because I was flipping burgers at Rally's. Haha!
The weird thing about Best Buy is that I could swear that when they first opened you could get good deals in there. But it couldn't have been much longer than that when they jacked the prices up insanely high! I won't even get a cable in there. I remember going in there to buy a cheapo ethernet cable when I was in a jam, and they wanted like $29 for a 6 foot cable. You can get it for $5 or less online. The truth is, it just isn't worth going into the store anymore for stuff like that.