[TriLUG] Article on Radio Shack's Demise

[Pete Soper via TriLUG]

http://anibit.com is a local Cary business. They don't have a store 
front yet have occasionally made arrangements in the past to provide 
alternatives to postal delivery. They are a distributor for Adafruit, 
Pololu, DigiStump, Dangerous Prototypes, Seeed, and Ezrobot. The owner 
(Jon Wolfe) attends TriEmbed <http://TriEmbed.org> meetings at NCSU 
every second Monday of the month (but any commercial interactions 
between Jon and other attendees at the meetings must be strictly private 
for the sake of TriEmbed's legal contract with 'State).

The Cary/Crossroads Radioshack is very much alive and well and there is 
no possibility of them being closed unless RS changes their position 
drastically and decides to close all remaining stores. They have an 
unusually good stock of hobby related parts (an entire wall of 
littleBits <http://littlebits.cc/>, for example). They also have an 
onsite repair shop (called "Fix it Here!") with a skilled technician 
(Matt Bain) who can do many phone and tablet repairs and maintenance ops 
like glass and battery replacement. Between Rick, Paul, and Matt I 
guestimate they have 50-70 years total experience selling, making, and 
fixing electronics. Even their relatively inexperienced guys (John and 
AJ) are MUCH sharper than average. They're fully engaged with keeping 
that store the benchmark in this part of the country. Phone is 919 851 
0332, address is 419 Crossroads Blvd, Cary, NC 27511 
<https://www.google.com/maps/place/419+Crossroads+Blvd,+Crossroads+Plaza,+Cary,+NC+27518/@35.7613362,-78.7355609,17z/data=%213m1%214b1%214m2%213m1%211s0x89acf490bd35899b:0xab62f3d9321053>.

I have no connection with either organization except as a satisfied 
customer.

-Pete



On 02/18/2015 12:19 PM, Greg Brown via TriLUG wrote:
> Adafruit.  :)  But there has to be a local shop, right?
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Scott Lambdin via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
>> Now which one of you will start an electronics shop?  Somebody has to do
>> it.
>>