Hi Rick - This is sad to hear, and also rather puzzling, even though while I still lived in Canada (until 2010) I seen the decline of Radio Shack myself and very well remember the parent company, Tandy, because they also operated craft shops (I was into macrame and leather craft long time ago, in my hippie years).
I say puzzling, because what you crave to find, in Vienna, Austria we have several large chains packed to the rafters - Future Shop and Saturn primarily, but there is also Media Markt, Cyberport and Hartlauer, as well as a host of smaller stores.
You would have a ball here - check the map on this yelp search
..... addendum: the competition is fierce, there are deep-cut sales happening all the time!
Example: Cyberport:

More: your photos made me think of how it used to be in Sowjet Russia: