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Re:Amazon Has Considered Buying Some Toys ‘R’ Us Stores by freehunter on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @12:37PM (#16630161)
The number of times I was working on an electronics product and went to Radio Shack to try to find a quick replacement for the resistor or motor I just fried is crazy... and the crazier part is they never once had the part I needed yet I kept coming back because it's the only store I could think of that might have it.

Arduino and Rapsberry Pi should have been their saving grace. Not cheap RC cars.

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Re:Amazon Has Considered Buying Some Toys ‘R’ Us Stores by km3k on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @03:09PM (#16631583)
I agree, but they were out of the parts business well before Arduino and Raspberry Pi were a thing. The last Radio Shack in my area that stocked resistors closed in 2006. There's none near me now, but since ~2000 they'd been mostly phone stores that also carried the occasional batteries and cables.
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Re:Amazon Has Considered Buying Some Toys ‘R’ Us Stores by s73v3r_ on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @07:26PM (#16633783)
They had gotten kinda back into the parts business within the last ~5 years or so? At least the ones near me did. They were starting to embrace the maker movement, and was at least dedicating some space to them.
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