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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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1 posted on 02/02/2015 5:14:28 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

Can’t WAIT for this to happen to Worst Buy..!


2 posted on 02/02/2015 5:16:22 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Red in Blue PA

Well, that’s too bad, but they have changed over the years and they are not the electronics/hobbyist store that they once were. Perhaps there was no market in that any longer.


3 posted on 02/02/2015 5:17:03 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler

Poor service didn’t help.

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4 posted on 02/02/2015 5:17:59 PM PST by Mears (there wasn't much conversation about it.)
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To: gaijin

“Can’t WAIT for this to happen to Worst Buy..!”

What do you have against Best Buy?


5 posted on 02/02/2015 5:18:28 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: Red in Blue PA

This started to RS when they got rid of their nerds who knew electronics.


6 posted on 02/02/2015 5:18:56 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: Red in Blue PA

They’ve been around for 94 years? Did they even have radios 94 years ago? Just kidding.


7 posted on 02/02/2015 5:19:49 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are republican voters.)
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To: Star Traveler

I agree, they changed and not for the better.

There is a massive market for maker stuff and they could have gone back to their roots and catered to that market with 3d printing and built on that.


8 posted on 02/02/2015 5:20:36 PM PST by DarthFuzball ("Life is full of little surprises." - Pandora)
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To: Star Traveler

my hearing aid has as many components within chips as an old radio shack store.

the fact is radio shack is obsolete


9 posted on 02/02/2015 5:21:01 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Red in Blue PA

lol Their “plug” was pulled a LONG damn time ago!


10 posted on 02/02/2015 5:22:49 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Mears

....Or anything else they did. lol


11 posted on 02/02/2015 5:23:35 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: bert; Star Traveler

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Radio Shack is dead.

They don’t even restock their parts cabinets anymore.

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12 posted on 02/02/2015 5:23:42 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Star Traveler

They are no longer what they were. It is nothing more than a toy store. I gave up on them and do all of my electronics shopping at Digi-Key and Mouser.


13 posted on 02/02/2015 5:24:54 PM PST by mazda77
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To: editor-surveyor

The only reason i EVER went there was for the parts cabinet.


14 posted on 02/02/2015 5:26:12 PM PST by T-Bone Texan (The time is now to form up into leaderless cells of 5 men or less.)
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To: TexasGator

Best Buy sucks almost as bad as Radio Shack. They only have more stuff, bigger retail space, and more people that know shit about absolutely nothing. Their employees usually just get in my way when I might RARELY go there to actually buy something. lol


15 posted on 02/02/2015 5:28:51 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Star Traveler

There’s a great and growing market, but it’s being served my new companies run by millennials. Meanwhile RS was competing vs. the phone company.


16 posted on 02/02/2015 5:29:40 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Sad to see an icon go away, but it’s been coming for years. I’m amazed they’ve lasted as long as they have, to be honest.


17 posted on 02/02/2015 5:30:01 PM PST by DemforBush (A Repo Man is always intense!)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I remember those Forrest Mims electronics books they sold.


18 posted on 02/02/2015 5:30:28 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Red in Blue PA

KICK_EM_WHILE_THEYRE_DOWN_PING!


19 posted on 02/02/2015 5:32:10 PM PST by The Duke
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To: Dalberg-Acton

instead of selling cell phones, they should have tried to compete with Gamestop, although in a few years it will probably go the way of Blockbuster video too


20 posted on 02/02/2015 5:32:13 PM PST by GeronL
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