Abandoned - RadioShack

After over 80 years in business and the worlds largest electronic store retailer, today I explore how this billion dollar company which revolutionized the electronic store market, eventually came tumbling down into its eventual bankruptcy in the same vein as Circuit City. Let's take a look at the history of RadioShack.

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Thumbnail Photo - Phillip Pessar

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[dustinwashere]

RIP Radio Shack, Toys R Us, Sears, K-Mart, KB Toys, Borders, Charlotte Russe, Sports Authority, and Sport Chalet. Gone but not forgotten.

[OutlawNix]

I got a Radio Shack digital multimeter for xmas from my dad. It was the last thing he bought me before he passed away. After 20+ year's I still have that digital multimeter and it's still working great.

[cameronlane]

What I have learned from this series: Amazon and Walmart are the deaths of literally every store in existence

[noahbundonis]

Glad to see a video from you again Jake. Love your Abandoned Series. 😄

[drewfullhart]

jake, i have a concussion right now and im supposed to limit my time looking at screens. ive been so bored just having to sit here and rest. thank you so much for your interesting videos that i can listen to without having to look at the screen.

[AndyFL]

I owned a Radio Shack franchise from 1984-1997, store 22-A592. Sold it at the end of Fed 1997. They started hiring people to run the company who had no idea what Radio Shack was about. Shortly after I sold my store, the company got all the stores to put almost all of the small items, capacitors, resistors, audio adapters and plugs, etc, into these big drawer cabinets. I KNEW they were history at that point. Sure

[KabukeeJo]

Before the days of Amazon, if you wanted a freaky battery for your freaky device, you went to Radio Shack!

[toddlee-millstein]

Even 2000’s kids remember radio shack...

[tclem]

Thanks, Jake for covering Radio Shack in your series. I worked for Radio Shack for 10 years from 1979 to 1989, very BIG years for the chain, and a very important 10 years in my life. I managed 4 different stores over that time, 3 in Southern California and 1 in Seattle, before I left the company (well, I left sales, then ended up as the District Secretary for the Seattle stores for almost 2 years). Watching your video was very cathartic for me. I guess there's been some closure that I've never really dealt with, and it really helped to get a good cry over seeing the loss of a place I took great pride in working in, and winning sales awards during my time as a store manager. I loved working with my fellow salespeople, and loved helping customers, but middle and upper management definitely didn't "get it". I found the knowledge level of the salespeople was severely lacking over the years, and I usually ended up helping a customer when I'd be in a store, shopping for myself. I had the know-how, and was glad to share it. I miss that part a LOT.

[thebananaman]

I was the very last customer of my local radio Shack before they closed. I bought a 90 % off HDMI cord. I still have it unopened.

[hwogrillo]

Man, Radio Shack was such a great store.

up until they decided it would be an amazing idea to dedicate 90% of every store to phones which I can find in every damn store in the world...and then I had no reason to go in there again.

[macpatten]

I lived in Scott City Kansas for a little while. They have an open Radio Shack in town. Original, never cosmetically updated, never closed, never changed ownership. Truly a living relic.

[doccomoli]

I remember saving up my money to buy a Soundblaster 16 sound card for my computer, at Radio Shack.

My god that sounds old now.

[danielsnow]

Jake, I had a really hard test that exhausted me, and this video came out right when I was done with the test. It really made me happy. Thanks a lot!!!

[jaxes]

I was pretty sad when this happened. I grew up playing with their R/C cars and loved seeing all the neat things in their stores.
As an adult I'm now a ham radio operator and have acquired 2 old R.S. brand ham radios and they still work!

[ruuneney]

The biggest loss was the types of products that Best Buy, etc don't offer and never offered - actual discrete electronic parts, such as resistors, transistors, switches, PC boards and enclosures, and all sorts of related stuff. You used to be able to walk into an RS and buy just about anything like that. During their last few years, it became just a tiny corner of the store. Now, there is nearly nowhere to buy any of that stuff, at least in-person.

[bluestrife]

I am grateful to this company because I grew up in Kodiak Alaska ; and the ONLY connection to the rising tech world of the 80’s was that little store. I had a Tandy 1000 I got from there . Had that computer for years and years . Thanks Radio Shack. Wouldn’t have known about Final Fantasy either without old man Dave that ran the place .

[neilouellette]

Back when I was a kid during the mid 60's to early 70's, Radio Shack had these science kits as well as chemistry kits. You could make everything from radios, listening devices to little chemical bombs. These kits came in a few different sizes. I think the biggest Science Kit allowed you to build up to 50 different projects. The stuff they sold in the Chemical Kit was unreal. Couldn't buy that stuff today. These Radio Shack Science and Chemical Kits were awesome at Christmas time. Hours upon hours of enjoyment. LOL!

[lynnee.pagels]

Worked over 10 years in the late 70’s into the 90’s in the Detroit market. Ran 7 stores. Still have a STA-2250 receiver and a DX 440 shortwave radio. Still working after 30 years!

[tianamarie]

Omg I remember going to RadioShack as a kid with my mom and marveling at all their “cool” things. We would stop by Burlington and then to RadioShack before leaving the mall and it was always a good time!