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Wish the Shack had gone all in on the Maker stuff. I miss the old days (90s) when I could buy small quantities of components. Now I'm stuck buying the 1000 pack of 1/4W resistors in all the Ohms, and so many other things. But they come back on Crypto? Now!? Tell me your business is dead w/o saying "we're dead".

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Our local RadioShack doubled down on the maker components. I go buy things from them weekly just to show they have community support. I really hope they don’t close.

Going to guess your local RadioShack is one of the handful of independent RadioShack dealers left. It would be a shame if they ended up dropping the RadioShack brand because the current owners of the brand find being profane as a good way of getting attention.

Despite the statements at the start of the article, I remember at least the tail end of RadioShack and that still existed near me when I first got into electronics.

Nowadays, a lot of my project ideas die because I need some part, that I have to order and wait for shipping and by the time that happens, I've lost motivation or my mind has engaged another idea. It would be really nice to have a RadioShack or microcenter to at least pick up basic stuff, but ofc the former is basically dead and the latter has 0 presence the third largest US economy somehow.

sparkfun and adafruit filled their niche

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