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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Can’t WAIT for this to happen to Worst Buy..!
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.
Poor service didn’t help.
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“Can’t WAIT for this to happen to Worst Buy..!”
What do you have against Best Buy?
This started to RS when they got rid of their nerds who knew electronics.
They’ve been around for 94 years? Did they even have radios 94 years ago? Just kidding.
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.
my hearing aid has as many components within chips as an old radio shack store.
the fact is radio shack is obsolete
lol Their “plug” was pulled a LONG damn time ago!
....Or anything else they did. lol
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Radio Shack is dead.
They don’t even restock their parts cabinets anymore.
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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.
The only reason i EVER went there was for the parts cabinet.
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
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.
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.
I remember those Forrest Mims electronics books they sold.
KICK_EM_WHILE_THEYRE_DOWN_PING!
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
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