I used to go into Radio Shack all the time back in the 1980's. Then they stopped sending out the catalogs, and then stopped sending the flyers, and then they stopped carrying so many radios, and then they stopped carrying as much home audio stuff, and then they got rid of their CB and Ham stuff.... and became a glorified cell phone store.
Which I suppose is o.k., except they have a lot more competition now as a cell phone store than they did as a radio / stereo / computer / electronics hobby store.
Sometime in the late 1990's I just quit going there, except to stop in now and then to get some small parts.
The last major purchase I made at a Radio Shack was last year. I got the Radio Shack "PLL Synthesized World Receiver", which is a Sangean ATS-505 in Radio Shack clothing.
I had read about this radio on the 'net, and even though I didn't really need another radio, the price was cheap enough (about $80), so I decided to buy one and try it out. It works well -- compares well to most of my other digital portables.
My other reason for buying it was more sentimental than the price, I suppose. I had this feeling that it would be the last Radio Shack branded SW radio, ever.
Hopefully, that doesn't turn out to be true, but who knows?