Digikey have 1% resistor kits. I have a few of them. Even if I've run out of the 'exact' value, the next value up or down will do the trick to replace a 5% resistor.
Shame about the Radio Shack. stores They certainly were useful at times.
Yup, I've about decided to get one of those and update my resistor stock. It's tragic when Fry's has hundreds of resistor slots on their display, and half of them are either empty, mis-stocked, or in a pile of loose packages under the shelving. The associates clearly don't care about re-stocking or sorting them; I'm not even going to bother looking next time.
They used to have some test equipment such as scopes, power supplies, etc. set up for display. When I was thinking about a scope, I went to look them over and push a few buttons. I can be swayed to spend a few extra dollars if I get to handle the gear and verify that it does what I want. But no, now they just have a few low-end items in sealed boxes at higher prices than I can get next-day shipped from Amazon. Retail stores are killing themselves.
Radio Shack back in the 70s had all kinds of enclosures, switches, components, and drawer after drawer of piece parts that they didn't want out on display. A few minutes of searching and you could find something useful for your emergency repair or custom project without having to mail-order a part or drive 50 miles to the next city. As a college friend once said, "It's the place where you can buy an op-amp on a Sunday afternoon." Not the cheapest, but sometimes what you desperately needed. Once they went down the road of cheap consumer electronics, phones and R/C parts, it was inevitable that they'd lose the hobbyist market which sustained them for years.
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