On 2017-01-12, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

RS was a good place if you need a diode or resistor, but not for equipment.

After they bombed on computers, they switched to phones and RC toys.
Cell phones, land line peripherals, RC helicopters, etc. They still
failed. Those "diodes and resitors" were not enough to sustain the
brick n' mortar crowd, specially after the industry switched to
surface-mount-technology (SMT).

We still have a single RS (privately owned) store between two towns.
They keep having a "sale".

nb