[sdiy] Joe Knows Electronics etc.

[Eric Frampton]

I miss TechAmerica, too. I’ve been to the Fry’s in Duluth, and their parts selection is pretty non-existent. Just visited one in Las Vegas, however, and it was stocked really well.

Once upon a time here we had ACK Radio (still there), Audio Lab in Chamblee (still there), a shop on Buford Highway that’s gone, another shop in Chamblee that’s gone, and a shop in Smyrna that’s gone - and all of those before TechAmerica showed up. Pretty bad showing for a city of 5.7 million people.

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> On Oct 24, 2016, at 6:40 PM, Phillip Harbison <alvitar at xavax.com> wrote:
> 
> David G Dixon wrote:
>> I don't think so.  I've been in Vancouver for 23 years,
>> and I've never used Future/Active.  I think they went out
>> of business a long time ago.
> 
> Atlanta once had TechAmerica (part of Tandy?) and Microcenter.
> TechAmerica is gone. Microcenter eliminated their library and
> only sold subsystems for the build your own computer crowd,
> although they've recently started stocking maker stuff such
> as Arduino and Raspberry Pi. We now have Fry's in Alpharetta
> and Duluth. I've only been to the Alpharetta location. They
> sell a lot of chips, prototyping stuff, and test equipment.
> 
> It would seem difficult to be profitable with a retail store
> that only sells electronic parts. Fry's probably survives on
> their sales of appliances, electronics, games, music, and
> movies. It might be possible to survive as a maker space that
> sold electronic parts. I'm thinking about trying that as a
> way to help pay for the maker space.
> 
> -- 
> Phil Harbison
> http://www.xavax.com/IoT
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