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Radio Shack is still in business here in New England. I drive by one almost every day.

Radio Shack is a Zombie company. Radio Shack is bankrupt.

"On March 31, 2015, the bankruptcy court approved a $160 million offer by the Standard General affiliate General Wireless, gaining ownership of 1,743 RadioShack locations. As part of the deal, the company entered into a partnership with Sprint, in which the company would become a co-tenant at 1,435 RadioShack locations and establish store within a store areas devoted to selling its wireless brands, including Sprint, Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile. The stores will collect commissions on the sale of Sprint products, and Sprint will assist in promotion. Sprint stated that this arrangement would increase the company's retail footprint by more than double; the company previously had around 1,100 company-owned retail outlets, in comparison to the over 2,000 run by AT&T Mobility. Although they are treated as a co-tenant, the Sprint branding will be more prominent in promotion and exterior signage than that of RadioShack. The acquisition did not include rights to RadioShack's intellectual property, such as its trademarks. While Standard General was granted a limited, six-month license for use of the RadioShack brand, rights to the brand, along with RadioShack's franchised locations, will be sold during a separate auction in May 2015. Standard General representatives have stated that while the company does not necessarily need the RadioShack trademarks to conduct their new business, it may still bid for them.[161][162][163][164]
The re-branded stores soft launched on April 10, 2015, with a preliminary conversion of the stores' existing wireless departments to exclusively house Sprint brands. The stores will eventually be renovated in "waves" to introduce larger spaces for Sprint.

But I will not patronize Apple, Google, Micro$oft, Wal-Mart or any other signers of that extortion note.

Well at least you are going to try to be consistent? Now, how about CISCO? Are you going to strip Cisco out of your phones, routers, and your carrier's equipment? That's a problem. . . ;^) Face it, the signers of that letter are ubiquitous and unavoidable.