Idk what these places did, (double it and) give it to the next person

If they’re like they were in their heyday (innovative computer tech), RadioShack for sure.

That's not even a question, the spirit of radioshack with 2025 technology, that would be awesome !

Radio shack for sure. Has anything electronic or computer related you need.

RadioShack

RadioShack, with the drawers of capacitors and resistors.

Radio Shack. And not the recent version. The OLD version with breadboards and soldering irons and electronics kits.

As someone who used to be an Assistant Manager at Blockbuster...keep that thing dead and gone. Like as a consumer, sure I get it, but working there absolutely sucked. No one remembers the late fees or the fact Blockbuster would send you to collections for ONE late fee (like a whole $3.25) and then send you those bullshit cards in the mail letting you know that you owe them less than $5? yeah I remember cause on a near daily basis I'd get someone in the store yelling at me that they're trying to get a loan or a house and this little card is fucking it all up for them. MOST of the time the late fee was because the absolutely ancient computer system we used that they never updated...at all...since the 80s...would skip barcodes randomly on scans. That or some vengeful employee at another store would just manually add fees to someones account (yes that was possible, yes we could just add fees to random accounts willy nilly)

also my District Manager was a douchenozzle. Mike, rot in hell.

I miss Fry's. It was nice if you were building your own PC to go in and get parts immediately. Amazon with their unfair no-taxes that crippled big box stores and mom and pop's, and Netflix for videos by mail (remember getting DVD's in the mail?) and then streaming began wiping out most of these, except Friendly's.

Friendlies still exist I saw one just a month or two ago

Movie store. Movie night was magical.

Toys R Us was really special for me as a kid. Especially when my local one ran yugioh tournaments.

Radio Shack

No one else has electronic components

How about independent pharmacies

Fry's

None of these ever existed in my country, except for Toys "R" Us, which still exists.

An obligatory "Fuck Blockbuster:" They sucked compared to the local rental shops.

Aren't some of those still open?

Fry’s electronics

Umm I don't think we need more massive monopolise gaint corporations

We still have Toys R Us and Party City here, and they seem to be doing fine. Blockbuster isn't really needed anymore. Old school Radio Shack would be pretty cool though.

Toys R Us. No contest.

https://www.toysrus.ca/en/home It Still is in business

Circuit City. I grew up on CompUSA but CC had better prices, if I remember right from my childhood. Then CU died, then CC died, then FE died, now all we have is shitty BB.

My CC I got to go 'in the back' to watch then replace a psu that died and I correctly diagnosed, back in like... 03? Two techs for the store, super chill, talked me through the process. I've been building and repairing my own systems ever since. They told me to let them know when I was 16, they'd put in a good word for me after we chatted for about an hour. By the time I could legally work, the writing was on the wall, and CC died before I turned 17.

I wonder where those guys are at now. I thought I knew what I was doing, but they were so kind in explaining everything, answering every question, giving me confirmation about all sorts of stuff. I really hope they are doing well. They couldn't have been mid-20s at the time.

Probably none of them, I prefer MOM-and-pop shops

Tower Records and/or Borders Books & Music.

Do I have to?

a restaurant called bravissimo in chile or something like that was called, i remember eating there as a kid, it was colourful and kinda funny looking.