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You got the cause and effect backwards. They expanded into non-technical markets because the technical market was failing. >resistors, fuses, soldering equipme
by rhino369 12y ago
You got the cause and effect backwards. They expanded into non-technical markets because the technical market was failing.
>resistors, fuses, soldering equipment, breadboards, various controllers and sensors, hard drives, processors: everything I needed to assemble an electronics project, fix a computer, make something.
Almost nobody uses any of these. Those who do it as a hobby and don't wanna pay corner store retail for products. Microcenter is essentially the only one selling half that stuff and they can support like 1 store per major metro area. And they don't even really sell resistors and sensors.
Nobody repairs electronics anymore.
The tiny niche maker movement could support a radioshack like store. But radioshack is a corner store. More like 7-11 than a microcenter.
They have to tell resister for 400 bucks to keep 5 thousand stores open.
- ChickeNES 12y agoActually the Microcenter near me (Chicago), has expanded their selection of electronic components significantly in the past couple of years. What once was one rack is now an entire wall, with Sparkfun, Adafruit, Parallax, and Seeedstudio stuff, Arduinos, Beaglebones, and Raspberry Pis, and plenty of resistors, transistors, and other individual parts.
- ansible 12y agoNow we just need same day drone delivery for them and Fry's. That would be so handy.
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- rhino369 12y agoI have fun memories of the one on the Northside. My harddrive failed during finals and I had to go out that night and get one. I actually paid for Xubuntu there hilariously enough. Paid like 2 bucks for a CD with it, so I could go online and download windows.