OT: Where have electronics hobby stores gone?

Chuck Guzis wrote: Yep, it is. I don't know if this has changed, but back when I worked there, cellular providers paid RS anywhere from $200 - $500 for each new customer we signed up. And, the salesperson's spiff on the sale wasn't counted against the store's P&L, because usually that, too, was funded by the cellular company. I would assume that the satellite provider (I don't remember if RS carries DirecTV or Dish Network), Sirius, and the other service-oriented electronics products RadioShack sells have similar deals. The store I worked at specifically was kept open because we sold cellular phones by the bucket-full. We'd sell a "back wall" product once a day, on a busy week. A mediocre salesperson (which I would count myself as one) would do one to two a day.