[2ndDivisionVet]

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

[bigbob]

it would be a brilliant move by Amazon, which already has 1/3 of all e-commerce - they need the local time/place utility provided by brick-and-mortar stores to maintain their position vs. the one competitor that can threaten them: Wal Mart.

[Swordmaker]

If they had not died long ago and were Radio Shack not already a ZOMBIE STORE walking, I would miss them. It is really too bad.

I recall as a teenager browsing the electronic catalogs of Lafayette Radio Electronics and the Allied Electronics catalogs, drooling over all the cool things. . . and occasionally buying something. Lafayette had cooler things than Allied. . . ad a better catalog.

Then Lafayette started opening stores and even had some of the first computers for sale to the public. They had a row of various makers' computers and you could try them all out. Commodore, Atari, Apple, TI, even Timex 1000. . .

The Lafayette Store was a place I generally stopped in at least two to three times per week. Radio Shack never had that kind of feeling. It was really a joke in comparison.

I was quite upset when the employees showed up for work one morning to find the Lafayette store closed without warning. The following week, they re-opened with new close-out staff, with all the prices raised for "specials" and started discounting from the higher prices until everything was gone. The entire chain basically disappeared within months.