Have you bought anything at a Radioshack within a year?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

No.

I'm kind of surprised they lasted as long as they did. Radioshack basically functioned as an electronics convenience store, it wasn't big enough to have the selection you can get at big boxes, so you just swung by one if needed to pick up something like a TV adapter or phone charger or batteries or whatever. Last thing I bought at one was a new charging cable for my old computer a couple years ago. I know now they were kind of a cell phone reseller mostly. But the business model was very odd in the modern era. I often saw them and just kind of saw them as there like I do with jewelry stores or Hobby Lobby type places that I'll never visit but can imagine who does. Not as much for Radioshack, though I understand they specialized in people who liked DIY electronics projects, and since those are kind of an 80s thing now, it is incredible they lasted for so long.

Oh and http://www.theonion.com/articles/even-ceo-cant-figure-out-how-radioshack-still-in-b,2190

(2007 mind you)

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Accidentally voted no. I bought some speaker wire for my new turntable setup. The employee that sold it to me was far and away one of the worst people I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with. A more vengeful version of myself would be happy he's likely out of a job now.

[The Dowager Mod]

Yes.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

RadioShack has become little more then a cell phone dealer these days. In the old days you could buy enough components to build circuit boards from scratch, but that is impossible now that there selection has been reduced so much in that regard. That market is now being served by the internet. Also what they do have is expensive. I need a data cable to install a SATA drive into my older Emachine and it is much cheaper online then it is at RadioShack.

So no.

[Marokai Backbeat]

I bought a pair of headphones there at some point last year I believe since other stores didn't specifically have what I wanted, but most of the stuff they had was insanely overpriced.

[MaxQue]

They left Canada in 2007 (and most of their stores became "The Source by Circuit City"). Circuit City also went bankrupt, but The Source still lives on. Still overpriced, but very competent and useful staff (unlike Radio Shack).