I would prefer Microcenter make smaller versions of their stores. Like Micro-Microcenters.
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It was sad to see RadioShack turn into a cellphone store as the maker spaces, 3d printing and hobby pc building all took off and needs a modern version of RadioShack. Same with Sears, they cancelled their home shopping catalog the year Amazon started shipping online
Move to Canada. We still have Toys R Us and "the Source" (which is what RadioShack became here).
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Toys Я Us. With proper management they could still be successful, unlike Blockbuster which was a victim of changing technology.
Y'all really need to step up the meme game. What does this even mean. "I'm old ha ha ha?"
Also, Jesus. I don't need more cheap crap, I need to get drunk on a friday without spending my whole paycheck and Josh can hook that up.
Blockbuster, physically seeing the movies that I'm gonna pirate is priceless.
We never had blockbusters here, but our local equivalent is actually still doing quite well. I think streaming movies is more popular, but a lot of people go there to rent music CDs. Actually buying physical music albums is really expensive.
We still have Toys R Us too actually, I think it does pretty well here for the most part.
So I guess my answer defaults to Radioshack.
There’s still a running RadioShack out in Dickson TN that I visited once. It’s actually a fantastic store to have nearby for electronic hobbyists who need weird adapters on a whim without waiting a few days to a few weeks for online shipments. I understand why it went mostly under, but as someone who was born in 2000, it was a little sad to realize that those stores mostly only exist for niche markets now.
RadioShack. Without a doubt.
What good is Blockbuster when streaming exists?
What good is Toys R Us when kids don’t play with toys anymore and I definitely can’t afford to obsessively collect toys like those who came before me?
Jesus - no
RadioShack was a niche tech store with niche tech stuff. No need to wait an absurd amount of time for random stuff online.
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It'd be Jesus for me. I love a highly principled man telling me what to do.
I was at toys'r'us last weekend. Well I walked through it to get to babies'r'us, but I was technically there.
Blockbuster for sure. You can get similar experiences from other stores for RadioShack and toys r us.
I'm going Blockbuster, just because I'd love to be able to rent new release video games again. Redbox used to scratch that itch, until they stopped carrying them.
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Toys R Us only went under in the US thanks to Vulture Captialists like Mitt Romney.
So old school Radio Shack with the hobbyist electronics in the back.
I would bring back bottom right square because I love prog rock
There's already toys r us stores reopening in the uk
As part of WH Smiths. In a tiny corner of the shop, from the looks of it. Hardly the giant warehouse of fun from my youth (along with Jolly Giant), so you can gawp at all the things your parents won't buy you. We haven't even got the Argos laminated book of dreams any more. Do kids not want this stuff any more? Do birthdays and Christmas now just consist of overpriced videogame outfits and the latest devices to watch noisy TikTok videos on?
Smiths will be the Woolworths/Wilkos of the 2030's. Yet another high street shop nobody goes in. The only part of them that could possibly be thriving is the airport shops where you can't even go anywhere else.
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Jesus then ask him to bring ther others back.
Radio Shack alllllll day
Nah lol I’m good
Toys'R'Us with Jesus as CEO.
As an almost 40yr old now father, this is such a hard choice. Except Jesus. I'll never get to see that magic of the face of my child (4yr) the first time we would walk in. Or, the magic of my own face every time I went into a RadioShack. Blockbuster was just a cool place overall.
RadioShack