You may want to check your closet RS store for crazy prices. Just bought 1M RGB LED strips for $0.59. They are TN1803 based instead of WS2812’s and 12v strips. The guy ahead of me bought ALL the Arduinos and Spark Fun stuff and spent only $27 for at least 18 Uno R3s.
Apparently each store is different. Look for Phase B merchandise which is 80% off.
My store has no sales at this time
Does Radio Shack have any really large stores in the area? I know of only a few hole-in-the-wall outlets.
They are probably closing the small stores first? But they have a huge list.
RS Store Closure List (PDF)
They have divided up the stores into categories and the stores that are closing earlier have MUCH higher discounts on products. The store in Corinth had the 1M tri-color LED strips marked down to less than 60 cents each and Basic Stamp systems down to $8… I cleaned them out of a LOT of stuff.
The store in Lewisville on Main St. is only down to 50% off the lowest marked price so the Basic Stamps were $20 each.
Big difference.
Also, don’t pay a lot of attention to pricing. The 2 stores I was at today were terribly mispriced and the tags on the pegs didn’t match what was on the pegs. These folks running the stores were employees from other stores as people have been leaving as soon as they can find other work. They are still putting up boxes of stuff as fast as they can, but these stores are train wrecks inside. (At least to me as a former manager, they are…)
The RS in Lewisville on 3040 was down to 80% on the stuff I bought.
My store in Dallas was 50% off the 80% off on maker stuff. I bought lots of things. All this was < $40 total.
The Flower Mound store is not a clearance store. However they were boxing up stuff to send to other stores.
I used my Garmin to hunt for stores outward from my home. The first two stores apparently don’t exist. The third, down on Campbell, is not closing, and they told me that the stores that are closing were already closed for the night; the discount stores close at 6 P.M. I looked at one more store, over in Garland; it’s closing, but was already closed for the night. It looked like it might still have something interesting in it. I should have gone over there yesterday, when I was right across the street from it.
We got the same story at the Waxahachie RS: not shutting down, not having a sale, so on, so forth.
Euless on is on the list, but didn’t know about closing and didn’t t have
any discounts
We’ll probably call ahead to the listed stores nearby rather than make the drive all around between Duncanville and Ennis and wherever else. Anyone else down here on the south end of the Metroplex interested in the status of these store sites?
I just noticed that if you do a search for Radio Shack on Google Maps, and you click on each icon, the store hours show 6 P.M. on some of the stores, at least one of which I know is closing. The other stores show 8:30 P.M. They all open at 10 a.m.
ETA: Well, I did my best to close out the Garland store, but they still have some stuff on their shelves. I was expecting a large crowd at opening today, but they actually had a lot of nice things remaining. I mentioned to the lone clerk in the store that I was surprised the store hadn’t already been picked clean. He said he was surprised, too, because the store has been on close-out since November.
I bought a bunch of Arduino stuff, but a few pieces remain on the shelf. I bought a bunch of soldering supplies, a cable termination crimper and a clamp-on DC/AC meter. I bought all the EL supplies I could find; the clerk even let me take the store display. I have kits and magazines.
I might be making a donation to DMS. I didn’t actually buy most of this stuff for myself, anyway. I’m hoping we could use it in classes.
While I was in the store, I struck up a conversation with a young man who was also shopping. He asked me if I was building a big project. I told him that Dallas Makerspace members are scouring all the Radio Shack stores. He brightened and said that he is looking for a Makerspace. I gave him the DMS address.
My two Dallas stores with such good deals yesterday (Medallion & Lakewood) actually raised their prices this morning 
Oh well, good while it lasted.
Well, the Mockingbird store is between those two; maybe they still have good prices?
I wanted to buy all the PV solar cells, too, but those were not marked down.
WSJ has a nice map of all the RS store closings.
Quick! Let’s take a trip to Agua Prieta, AZ! Why do they even have a store out there?
Ok my haul of the Lewusville stores this morning. Included tons of Arduino Shields;
TFT Shield
GPRS Shield
Motor Shield
Relay Shield
SD Card Shield
X-Bee Shield
Ethernet Shield
Parallax 3-Axis Gyroscope
4x 1meter RGB LED strips
3x Soldering Starter Kits
EL Tape & 12v inverter
Couple of USB battery packs
Robot gears and motors
And on and on…
Spent $60 saved $222
It seems there is a group of stores that are closing and discount is 30 - 50% now and another group that is closing that were already “clearance” stores and their discount is 50 - 80%. The info is supposed to be on their website but isn’t posted yet. In the Mid-cities the Eueless store on Ector and the Hurst store on Precinct Line (by Target at 183) are closing but only at the 30/50% discount now. The North Richland Hills store at Davis Blvd and Precinct Line is at 50/80% discount. Most of the DIY stuff at NRH rang up at 80% off. After discount the Arduino boards were $12 and the Arduino starter kits (without boards) were $7. EL wire $3, electronic circuit thread $2. In the parts drawers almost everything rang up at 80% off. I’d suggest going to one of the stores on the closing list and asking where is the nearest clearance store with 50-80% discount. Be nice to the employees, they just found out yesterday that their stores were closing and they will be out of work.
Radio shack at Preston and royal is on clearance and still had a fair bit of stock. I picked up a load of arduino hardware for 60% off.
Thanks for the heads up!