I live in a city in the midwest US. I like it here, but when it comes to electronics my only local shopping option is Best Buy. We used to have a Comp USA and

I live in a city in the midwest US. I like it here, but when it comes to electronics my only local shopping option is Best Buy. We used to have a Comp USA and RadioShack, but those are long gone now. Whenever we travel to a city with a Fry's or a Micro Center, I always have to stop in just to browse. There's something exciting to me about having immediate access to so many computer and circuit components. On one trip we even needed a PC in a pinch and I was able to just grab everything I needed from Micro Center and have it together working in a few hours. That was a crazy experience for someone used to waiting weeks for everything to ship. I get it. Electronics stores are a dying breed. When it comes to most of their products, people often prefer to wait for shipping to save a few bucks. Online retail has forced them to subsist on razor thin margins. Plus a lot of their inventory depreciates in value extremely quickly. And then there's the pandemic. In light of all that, they're also probably not great to work for. I get why they're all disappearing. But I'm still disappointed. RIP brick-and-mortar electronics retail.