Don't believe companies' promises to never misuse the information. They aren't getting your name and address for your benefit.
$26 million is just a drop in Radio Shack’s bankruptcy bucket.
Why the H8? Did Radio Shack typically have poor service or cashiers with an attitude? I’m not very tech savvy or tech-curious, so I would not enter a Radio Shack that often. I barely know what to ask at for Best Buy.
You can walk in and buy TTL parts, servo motors, transformers, diodes, etc. I know that’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but it was cool to do that.
Try that at Michaels. Don’t know if Hobby Lobby stocks electronic hobby materials, but the rest of the hobby stores are pretty sexist - catering to the more feminine stuff.
Something that I found hilarious related to this was on Saturday Night Live about a year ago during the “Weekend Update” segment. The anchorman said “Radio Shack announced today that it was filing for bankruptcy; a spokesman cited the primary reason for the filing was “stiff competition from The March of Time”. lol
I’m glad most stores will remain open. I didn’t know where I was going to get my VHS tapes and parallel printer cables.
They made great computers in their day. Like all the hundreds of others though they lacked the vision to successfully go forward.
Radio Shack by the very nature of their name was anachronistic. There is no market for what they originally sold.