Radio folks have been dubbing RS "Cellphone Shack" for years. Seems they don't sell that many radios these days (and even if they do, chances are employees are clueless about them). That used to be quite different.
I worked at Radio Shack for a year back in the 90's. I was an amateur radio enthusiast, and back then you could still find some 2 meter ham radios in their stores and special order the rest. These days you can't find any, they told me to check a truck stop to see if they had any when I asked a few years ago.
It was pretty bad as far as pay if you couldn't make commissions from selling cellphones and computers, and the asking people for their contact information was completely idiotic which thank god they've stopped that now. It's slowly gotten even more consumer appliance oriented, and as radio has been replaced by the internet/cell phones they've stopped selling basically any radio equipment. That's why they're trying tried to change their name to "the Shack" now. lol Even their parts bins have been wittled down to practically nothing now. When their stores around here threw out the majority of their bins they had like a 75% off sale, so I basically bought their entire stock of everything they had so I have a supply for a long time of junk. lol
America really needs a national Fry's. An electronic super store. I really miss them since I moved away from California.
That said, Radio Shack keeps me in little yellow wire connectors, and basic soldering supplies, and for that alone, if that's all they had, they're still a handy utility. lol
They also have a good thing going with the website, and their local stores, they're basically a place to pick up orders from the web. You can ship things from their website to a local store with free shipping. I've bought a lot of parts for computers from them that way. They have really good deals occasionally on things like power supplies and hard drives on their website, although I would never buy a graphics card or memory from them.
