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RadioShack
1921–2015
“The store with a part for everything.”
Stores
The little corner electronics store with a parts drawer for every obscure connector, cable, and resistor — plus the free battery-a-month club card and the clerk who always asked for your name and phone number at checkout. It was where hobbyists, CB-radio owners, and anyone who needed one weird adapter ended up. Squeezed out of relevance, it went bankrupt and closed most stores in 2015.
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