Tower Records and/or Borders Books & Music.
We still have Toys R Us and Party City here, and they seem to be doing fine. Blockbuster isn’t really needed anymore. Old school Radio Shack would be pretty cool though.
Hello fellow Canadian
Greater Vancouver area has gone from like 6 toys r us to 1, don’t think they’re doing too fine
RadioShack
Movie store. Movie night was magical.
Freddy fazbear’s pizza
If they’re like they were in their heyday (innovative computer tech), RadioShack for sure.
Toys R Us. No contest.
I thought they were already opening some stores.
Old!radioshack gets a pretty good case made for it elsewhere in yhread, or I’d agree with you.
What is a Friendly’s?
That is the one I miss. It was an ice cream shop/ restaurant.
https://www.toysrus.ca/en/home It Still is in business
Fry’s electronics
Fry’s had been a living corpse for a decade. You’d have to go as far back as Circuit City to actually get the Fry’s you remember.
Even the zombie version of Fry’s was better than most of the alternatives (*cough* Best Buy *cough*).
I miss Fry’s. It was nice if you were building your own PC to go in and get parts immediately. Amazon with their unfair no-taxes that crippled big box stores and mom and pop’s, and Netflix for videos by mail (remember getting DVD’s in the mail?) and then streaming began wiping out most of these, except Friendly’s.
I literally joined this thread to say what you said
Missing Fry’s buddies!
Do I have to?
Toys R Us was really special for me as a kid. Especially when my local one ran yugioh tournaments.
As someone who used to be an Assistant Manager at Blockbuster…keep that thing dead and gone. Like as a consumer, sure I get it, but working there absolutely sucked. No one remembers the late fees or the fact Blockbuster would send you to collections for ONE late fee (like a whole $3.25) and then send you those bullshit cards in the mail letting you know that you owe them less than $5? yeah I remember cause on a near daily basis I’d get someone in the store yelling at me that they’re trying to get a loan or a house and this little card is fucking it all up for them. MOST of the time the late fee was because the absolutely ancient computer system we used that they never updated…at all…since the 80s…would skip barcodes randomly on scans. That or some vengeful employee at another store would just manually add fees to someones account (yes that was possible, yes we could just add fees to random accounts willy nilly)
also my District Manager was a douchenozzle. Mike, rot in hell.
The only of them that we had in Germany: Toys’r’us.
Objectively the right choice.
