[2ndDivisionVet]

Related:

Amazon and Google’s rumored moves may be ill-advised (Buying Uber and RadioShack?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3253702/posts

Report: Amazon Interested in Radio Shack Stores
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3253590/posts

[Swordmaker]

Too many things one needs are no longer available when you go to Radio Shack to find them. . . and too many things one doesn’t need are for sale when one goes to Radio Shack when one is in their store looking for what one needs. This is their failing. . . and the reason they are going under.

I went looking for a lighted SPST 125V 10A or greater switch the other day and even though they carry them the guy they had behind the counter had no idea what I was talking about. He was more interested in selling me the batteries they had on sale that were higher priced than what I could buy next door in the grocery store. . . or pointing out the displays of out-dated iPhone 4s and 5 cellphone cases. . . or the un-sold remote controlled helicopters and army tanks from Christmas marked down 25% in stacks on the show-room floor. What I did not find were much in the way of electronic parts.

[Paul R.]

IMO, Radio Shack lost their “soul” and tried to compete in too many areas in which they could not do a good job of such.

It used to be a great place to go, for electronics hobbyists.

[QT3.14]

They lost my business when I returned an item bought at another outlet while traveling. They wouldn't refund it because they didn't carry the item.

Yeah that's the ticket to success in having a loyal base.

[SoFloFreeper]

Radio Shack survived the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, the turbulent 60s, the malaise of the Carter years...

but couldn’t keep alive under Obama.

Another success for Valerie’s man-child: an American business dies.

[BigCinBigD]

In my youth I loved Radio Shack, Bought a CB radio that had a Mic that looked like a telephone receiver, There's a Shack down the street. I hope they put in a Subway.