RadioShack

Needing earbuds while breezing down High (cheep buds last about as long as Nobelium) I dropped in here. I didn’t know that RadioShack still exist, I thought they went the way of the Sabor Tooth Tiger and the home landline.
Our zip code obsessed fossil here seems owned by, or at least contracted to, Sprint as its name hung above the door and its products, subsidiaries included, were displayed inside. Today’s Shack, far from the cluttered sift-​through for the 1980s gizmo-​geek and electro-​head, now takes its cue from the Apple Store as the environs here looked copped from the fanboyz Holy place.
Really it is little different from a cell phone store, with phones, accessories, cards, and buds pleading for impulse purchasing. I took a peak at the price for IPad Air and it was high, $ 500 plus. It never made sense to me; why does cellular ability add 200-​dollars to the price?
I got a good pare of buds for about par. It seems to have everything for phones, but can you guess what RadioShack didn’t have? Radios.

Typical of modern Radioshacks, they are much less «radio» and much more about selling you cellphones (even if you don’t want a cell phone, or already have one).
Much of their stuff is overpriced, but that’s just Radioshack for you. $ 40 for an iPhone cable to 9VDC adaptor? Too much.
The staff is helpful– but overly helpful. Most of the time I just want to be left alone and buy what I need and leave. No, I don’t want a cell phone upgrade. I just want some resistors and extra solder.

Went to the store to buy a cable I was sure they would have. They did! I was helped within a few minutes of my arrival. All told, in and out in five minutes. I’m glad Radio Shack is still in business. There really are no alternatives for the kind of thing they do!