Electronics Surplus Shop 'WeirdStuff Warehouse' Is Closing (fastcompany.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Sunday April 8, 2018 @07:00PM from the one-door-closes-another-opens dept.

Fast Company's harrymcc writes: When technological goods are no longer of use to anyone in Silicon Valley, they end up in the WeirdStuff Warehouse -- where, it turns out, there often is someone willing to pay for them. Sadly, the 32-year-old Sunnyvale store is closing forever on Sunday. I paid a final visit and, as usual, felt like I could rummage through this vast storehouse of obsolete gadgets and software forever. WeirdStuff first made an appearance on Slashdot in 2003 when editor chrisd asked Slashdotters about their favorite surplus stores. Also mentioned was Skycraft.

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Re:Silicon Valley is dying by thegarbz · 2018-04-08 23:26 · Score: 3, Insightful

One thing is missing here - why it is closing? The answer is - because Google has
Nope, wrong. The answer is because the world has changed. Shopping habits have changed. Desire to repair equipment has changed. People's life expectancy has changed.
This has nothing to do with Google, and even less to do with Seattle. These places are closing all over the western world.