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I wish I could go to a early 90's radio shack rn honestly
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Newbury Comics is still around but last time I went there they had massively reduced their formerly huge stock of used cds/dvds to make room for shelves of funkopops. So RIP.
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Nov 20, 2022 12:28
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Dingwick posted:Fry's Back in the late 90s it really was a store where you could buy anything electronic you needed.
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Nov 20, 2022 13:37
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MrQwerty posted:I wish I could go to a early 90's radio shack rn honestly You can dial 988 to talk to someone at the Suicide Prevention Hotline. They are available 24 hours a day.
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Nov 20, 2022 13:44
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The Magic Eye Picture store
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Nov 20, 2022 13:45
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They reopened a Radio Shack in town but I’m afraid it’s nothing but cell phones and low-end remote control cars like the old Radio Shack was towards the end.
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Nov 20, 2022 13:48
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 This place. It was like a Sharper Image, Best Buy, and Media Play on steroids and we loved it. There was a McDonald's fast food restaurant inside and the place was absolutely massive. We would skip school to go there and just wander around all day and eat fries. You could play PC games on the state of the art 286/486 processors or sit in a giant vibration lazy-boy like Homer Simpson. I never knew anyone who ever bought anything from there even though we went a few times a week.
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Nov 20, 2022 14:00
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You Are A Elf posted:I miss hearing "attention K-Mart shoppers..." have you seen this. you can listen to it and pretend that you are in those hallowed halls. sometimes those words happen, and sometimes it's an advertisement for a blender. here is the url: https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers
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Nov 20, 2022 14:08
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Howard Beale posted:The Magic Eye Picture store What did this place sell? Was it all just those things you have to cross your eyes to see a boat or was it more like a magic shop too?
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Nov 20, 2022 14:26
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Lechmere's Circuit City Service Merchandise Bradlees' Radio Shack My favorite is still in business but used books stores in general
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Nov 20, 2022 14:46
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the mall i grew up going to. which is now a dirt lot. had a radio shack, walden books, and k b toys right next to eachother.
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Nov 20, 2022 14:54
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MrQwerty posted:I wish I could go to a early 90's radio shack rn honestly I went to one when I was trying to install a graphics card with no clue what I was doing and they gave helpful advice that fixed the issue and found the part I needed to make it work. Assuming that type of good employee is long gone.
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Nov 20, 2022 16:15
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Hills department store. I used to beg my mom to buy me Atari 2600 games there.
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Nov 20, 2022 16:39
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Unperson_47 posted:Radio Shack I worked there for about a year. Got to know every zip code in the area
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Nov 20, 2022 16:47
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:I worked there for about a year. Got to know every zip code in the area did people ever come in to buy a light timer cause they are going on vacation, and then you end the sale by asking for their address?
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Nov 20, 2022 16:59
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olives black posted:Basically every indoor mall, even the lovely one-level ones. Outdoor malls blow. Truly the gooniest post
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Nov 20, 2022 17:03
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I'm in that sweet spot of millennial where I remember many brick n mortar stores and all of them sucking rear end
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Nov 20, 2022 17:15
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Ups_rail posted:did people ever come in to buy a light timer cause they are going on vacation, and then you end the sale by asking for their address? no, only asked for address for returns. There were alot of returns
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Nov 20, 2022 17:16
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20 Blunts posted:I'm in that sweet spot of millennial where I remember many brick n mortar stores and all of them sucking rear end Hello fellow 90s baby.
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Nov 20, 2022 17:54
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Does anyone remember clover? It was kind of like a kmart or something, but more quaint. I mostly only remember the name and not the actual clover experience
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Nov 20, 2022 18:20
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Violet_Sky posted:Hello fellow 90s baby. if you were a 90s baby all you saw was your mom arguing with retail. You don't have a say in this
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Nov 20, 2022 18:22
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Doctor J Off posted:Does anyone remember clover? It was kind of like a kmart or something, but more quaint. I mostly only remember the name and not the actual clover experience I have vague memories of the clover
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Nov 20, 2022 18:23
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free hubcaps posted:Newbury Comics is still around but last time I went there they had massively reduced their formerly huge stock of used cds/dvds to make room for shelves of funkopops. So RIP. this is the fate of pretty much every comic book store, which is why they're dying
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Nov 20, 2022 18:28
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Ez8 posted:Hills department store. I used to beg my mom to buy me Atari 2600 games there. A lot of my childhood back to school and Christmas shopping happened there.
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Nov 20, 2022 18:34
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All of them. I hate this asocial poo poo. As bad as this poo poo was at promoting bad urban design it was far better than what we have now
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Nov 20, 2022 18:35
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My most nostalgic retail-based childhood memory is probably when Toys R Us kept all the video games in the layaway room near checkout, and the video game isles were rows of info cards with tickets under them that you would take to the cashier and then redeem at the layaway counter. Not sure if every Toys R Us did this, but it made getting a video game feel more special than just taking it from the shelf like other toys. Ours stopped doing this around 1999. Also while I think the act of going somewhere to get an item has value, it’s not so much this that I miss, since you can still do that but you’re mostly limited to the same handful of big box stores. I think what I miss more is specialty stores. Buying a thing at a store specializing in that thing is more of an experience than say, getting it during your Target run.
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Nov 20, 2022 21:47
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I think what I miss more is specialty stores. Buying a thing at a store specializing in that thing is more of an experience than say, getting it during your Target run. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BUDwj_mXKE
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Nov 20, 2022 21:52
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Oh, J.J. Newberry's, the last of the dime stores.
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Nov 20, 2022 22:17
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There is a magician shop down the street from where I live and I've never seen a single car there ever.
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Nov 20, 2022 22:22
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Chinatown posted:Fry's Electronics. This, absolutely.
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unknown butthole posted:There is a magician shop down the street from where I live and I've never seen a single car there ever. they would ride their brooms there dummy
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Nov 20, 2022 22:47
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unknown butthole posted:There is a magician shop down the street from where I live and I've never seen a single car there ever.
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Nov 20, 2022 23:29
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Nessus posted:Look at this guy who doesn't know how to cast dimension door yeah, but he's asking about dimension parking lot
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Nov 20, 2022 23:37
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Growing up in NW Calgary in the late 80’s/early 90’s there used to be a small video game rental store in a mini mall. Nothing fancy, peg board walls of Nintendo and Sega games, and consoles to rent. It was eventually lost to Rogers Video and blockbuster video. Years later I learn from my parents they knew the people who owned it. I was too young to realize that several of the workers were developmentally disabled. The family had created this small store for their disabled son and his companions to have jobs. It was run as a business and held its own for years.
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Nov 20, 2022 23:43
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:My most nostalgic retail-based childhood memory is probably when Toys R Us kept all the video games in the layaway room near checkout, and the video game isles were rows of info cards with tickets under them that you would take to the cashier and then redeem at the layaway counter. Not sure if every Toys R Us did this, but it made getting a video game feel more special than just taking it from the shelf like other toys. Ours stopped doing this around 1999. holy poo poo I remember as child having to do this too! It was a bright yellow paper/card with the video game name on it and you had to bring it to the layaway counter. Yes this definitely made it feel like a special experience when buying a video game opposed to another toy. I remember one time almost purchasing the wrong game, as I was with my mother and not paying attention when the store employee handed her the game and we were almost out of the store before I realize it was the wrong one.
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Nov 21, 2022 00:19
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It’s. Super Great Depression oh yeahhhhhhh
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Nov 21, 2022 00:35
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I miss I ❤️ Video so much. The perfect video store. Gone forever.
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Nov 21, 2022 00:53
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Doppler Computers was a magical place for a PC gamer in the early 90's. Very Vancouver-centric, but I miss "MultiMedia Software". They were a literal hole in the wall place that specialized entirely in PC games. They'd have all sorts of obscure stuff, used games from before CDkeys killed that market and they always broke street date. One day they just up and closed. The door was locked, stock was still on the shelves and over the next few months mail just piled up at the door. They would have never survived the modern digital era and when they closed consoles were really starting to kill the PC market but I miss them never the less.  NCIX was fun until the guy in charge went crazy and tried to expand the chain across Canada all at once. Oh well, Memory Express is a suitable replacement.
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HAmbONE posted:Growing up in NW Calgary in the late 80’s/early 90’s there used to be a small video game rental store in a mini mall. Nothing fancy, peg board walls of Nintendo and Sega games, and consoles to rent. It was eventually lost to Rogers Video and blockbuster video. wait wait wait Calgary is big enough to have sections?
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