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After 94 years, RadioShack may be about to pull the plug
Fortune ^

Posted on 02/02/2015 5:14:28 PM PST by Red in Blue PA

The troubled electronics retailer is reportedly in talks to sell half its stores to Sprint, while shuttering its remaining locations.

Troubled electronics retailer RadioShack is reportedly close to filing for bankruptcy and is in talks to sell half of its more than 4,000 stores to Sprint while shuttering its remaining locations.

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To: Star Traveler

hobbyists would be making things like Raspberry Pi’s instead of buying them online.


21 posted on 02/02/2015 5:34:58 PM PST by GeronL
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To: DemforBush

Agree on all counts. It’s a little sad to see a fixture of my childhood and adult life turn to dust. It was once the go-to store for electronic parts and such. Bygone era


22 posted on 02/02/2015 5:35:36 PM PST by over3Owithabrain
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To: Red in Blue PA

https://archive.org/details/tandy_books

Treasure trove!


23 posted on 02/02/2015 5:35:40 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Red in Blue PA

well circuit city (rhymes with city anyway) became hhgregg.

1/2 of crap shack’s stores will become sprints and the other half will probably add cheap jewelry, press-on nails and check cashing to go totally black.

maybe if sears or penneys implode when best buy does we’ll get some amalgam from all of that - buy sears for a penney, jc sears buy, J S B Emporium Magorium, ....


24 posted on 02/02/2015 5:35:52 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Americans don’t know how to make things anymore.


25 posted on 02/02/2015 5:36:42 PM PST by golux
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To: Star Traveler

There probably is still a market, it was just smaller. They should have specialized and had one store per city than to be like everybody else and be in every mall.


26 posted on 02/02/2015 5:38:38 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I love their 150 in 1 electronics kit. I remember all those when I was a kid. It is a shame they are just a mere shell of what they used to be.


27 posted on 02/02/2015 5:42:14 PM PST by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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To: Star Traveler

Has to be it. How many of our yutes even know what a soldering iron is, or a resistor, capacitor, tube, breadboard, etc.


28 posted on 02/02/2015 5:44:32 PM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: Jonty30

Wouldn’t hurt to stock up on a few resistors for when the SHTF! :-)


29 posted on 02/02/2015 5:46:56 PM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: KoRn

” RARELY go “

Sounds like a personal problem.

I sat in their Magnolia room theater chair for several hours checking out a TV before purchasing it. Hooked up DVD and played with the setup.

They matched the internet. I had to pay tax but they gave free delivery AND free setup plus free professional tuning and I got 5% back on my BB credit card.


30 posted on 02/02/2015 5:47:02 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: Red in Blue PA
Back in the late 1970s, when personal computers were just getting started, it was envisioned that men would use them while sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee, while the wife stared adoringly from behind the kitchen counter, polishing cutlery or whatnot.

It didn't quite work out that way in my house.

Anyway, top ad is Radio Shack's TRS-80 and bottom ad is the Apple II.


31 posted on 02/02/2015 5:47:21 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Red in Blue PA

Sad. Many years ago my Grandfather gave me a Radio Shack Shortwave Radio Kit for Christmas, and it led to a love of shortwave radio for me. So Radio Shack brings back those memories for me. Also now remembering the look on my mother’s face when she walked into the kitchen to find that shortwave radio kit attached with wire that was wrapped all around the kitchen sink faucet for an antenna lol. Ah, memories.


32 posted on 02/02/2015 5:48:00 PM PST by richmwill
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To: Nowhere Man

Ah, yes- with those little springs to attach wires instead of soldering, it was great! :)


33 posted on 02/02/2015 5:51:14 PM PST by richmwill
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To: TexasGator
What do you have against Best Buy?

The last time I was in Best Buy (not very recently -- but we'll get to that), I knew what they were like when I went in. I wanted a TV. I knew what I wanted. It wasn't top-of-the-line, but it was just a bit under $1000, and not an insignificant purchase. I walked in, found it, and a guy came over. I said, " I want this TV, Can I just pay for it and carry it out?" He said I could.

Then we began a long, slow process as he tried to sell me this and that. Do I need a stand? Do I need cables? Do I need a warranty?

I said, "Stop. I'm buying this TV. I'm not buying anything else today. You're making the fastest and easiest $1000 you will make all day. Just ring up the sale, and let me walk out with this. If you try to sell me one more thing, I will walk out of here without the TV."

He said: "Fine. I understand. I'll just ring you up. But, are you sure you don't need cables?"

I turned on my heel, walked to Customer Service and told them how they just lost $1000.

Haven't been back since. They are pushy, obnoxious know-nothings.

34 posted on 02/02/2015 5:51:36 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Malort, turning taste-buds into taste-foes for generations.)
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To: Dalberg-Acton
Thanx for the link. Here's another one for Radio Shack Catalogs:

Radio Shack Catalogs from 1939 on up
35 posted on 02/02/2015 5:51:45 PM PST by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Radio Shack?

All I think of “Can I please have your phone number?” Paying cash, no matter. The clerk just says it louder: “CAN I PLEASE HAVE YOUR PHONE NUMBER?”


36 posted on 02/02/2015 5:52:18 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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To: richmwill

I still have my kit too, might pull it out and play with it if I have the time. I’s love to have their crystal radio kit, I always wanted to make a crystal radio and put on the longest wire I can find and see how many stations I get at night.


37 posted on 02/02/2015 5:59:02 PM PST by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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To: gaijin

Not me. Best Buy is my goto brick and mortar store.


38 posted on 02/02/2015 5:59:39 PM PST by sparklite2
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Haven’t been back since. They are pushy, obnoxious know-nothings.”

I have spent hours looking at TVs and never been ‘pushed’.

When I bought mine they were very helpful and asked if I needed certain items but never were pushy. They helped me set up a BluRay DVD on the set and we worked with the tuning setpoints.

The set was delivered with white glove service. They made all the connections and made sure everything was working before they left.


39 posted on 02/02/2015 6:00:46 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: Red in Blue PA

Radio Shack! You have questions and we have blank stares.


40 posted on 02/02/2015 6:01:00 PM PST by the_daug
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