I needed a one ohm resistor, fairly high wattage, to use to measure current draw on a DeWalt thickness planer. The planer had been blowing circuit breakers. I was about to set off for the Radio Shack in St Johnsbury until I decided to check it's location on Google Maps, it has been some time since I last visited it. Surprise. Google Maps showed the St Johnsbury Radio Shack as "closed". In fact it showed a whole bunch of New Hampshire Radio Shacks as closed. Closest one still open was all the way up in Colebrook.
Well it was a nice sunny day, the car needed a little exercise anyhow, so I drove up. And they had the needed resistor, and I bought some other hardware too. Poor old Radio Shack stopped selling, or lost, or something, the high value high margin product you need to make enough money to stay alive. Back in the old days, Radio Shack sold stereo equipment under their own Realistic brand name. And ham gear and TV sets, and they pioneered the personal computer business with the TRS-80. Back in the day, the Trash-80 sold as well as Apple II. Somehow all the decent high margin products went away and Radio Sack was left with hardware bits and pieces, batteries, cables. Low value stuff. And now they are closing up. Too bad.
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