There are still some up and running electronics stores out there like Fry's where I can build a PC from parts. If Radio Shack had stayed the same maybe they would still be in business. Instead every year I walked in they were less and less like that and more and more just prepackaged goods like cell phones and toy cars. Half the time I went in the past couple years they didn't even have whatever adapter or cable or solder or whatever I needed due to them putting all their floor space toward competing with cell phone carriers and Toys R Us.