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i did post a topic on it but it wasnt very popular so i deleted it lol...I like radio Shack and they have some sweet stuff but theyre kinda expensive. I like their old 70's logo much better too

Radio Shack suxs, lol. I should know, i work for them. Its a evil and cheap company. They really dont focus on what they use to sell, parts, radios, etc. 40% of their business is cell phone now. That what every that works at Radio Shack cares about. T he good thing about them, the cell phones, they are cheaper if you go into Verizon or Sprint. Dont ever work for this company, people dont last long working for them!

I know. like 70% of the store is cell phone stuff and all the radio stuff has been moved to the back of the store. Might as well call it "Cell Barn" or something

that's a good idea!!!! lol....:insane:

I wish I had a picture of it but I once saw a Radio Shack up in Lancaster Pa. that was in a early 1900's house. It looked strange.

Radio Shack Telephones.

Wilmington, IL.

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/radioshack.html

Lemont, IL.

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/radioshack.html

Fairbury, IL.

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/radioshack.html

Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Canada.

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http://www.ftlcomm.com:16080/ensign/business/businessDir/radioshack/christmas2003/rwb2003.html

Radio Shack at Augusta Marketplace.  Radio Shack in Canada has recently been renamed "The Source" by Circuit City.

QuoteOriginally posted by Zayre88
Radio Shack at Augusta Marketplace.  Radio Shack in Canada has recently been renamed "The Source" by Circuit City.

Are they associtated with Circuit City now?


An old RS Battery
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http://www.blogto.com/city/2005/08/what_ever_happened_to_radio_shack/

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QuoteOriginally posted by storehistoryguy


Are they associtated with Circuit City now?

It's a long story but since last year, they are associated with Circuit City in Canada only....  Read this:

Radio Shack started in Boston more than 80 years ago.  It was acquired by Tandy Corporation from Texas in the 1940s.  Tandy spun off its foreign retail operations into InterTAN, Inc. in 1986.  So then, Canadian RadioShack stores were run under a licensing agreement by InterTan Canada Ltd. But InterTan was acquired last year by Circuit City, setting off the legal fight over the RadioShack name.

Circuit City is the second-largest U.S. electronics chain and RadioShack didn't want its name - and products - to help bolster a key competitor.  Radioshack sued Circuit City to stop it from using Radioshack name in Canada.

All Radio Shack stores in Canada are now operating under the name "The Source by Circuit City"

A calculator

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Another store found in pretty much every single mall and every other shopping plaza. The help varies from excellent to embarrassing. I remeber the Tandy computers and going in here for antenna wire and to test tubes for our ancient television. Decent buys can be found on occasion. Right now, I buy my mother's hearing aid batteries here since they are cheaper than the drugstore, I also buy my cordless phone batteries here since they install them for free.

Gloucester, ?.

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http://bestofwilliamsburg.com/radioshack/

Yorktown, ?.

(http://bestofwilliamsburg.com/radioshack/yorktown.jpg)
http://bestofwilliamsburg.com/radioshack/

Williamsburg, ?.

(http://bestofwilliamsburg.com/radioshack/williamsburg.jpg)
http://bestofwilliamsburg.com/radioshack/

this radio shack is in gardiner maine.

i heard news that there gonna clsoe 700 stores across the usa

By Nicole Maestri
2 hours, 34 minutes ago
 


RadioShack Corp. (NYSE:RSH - news), whose chief executive has admitted to lying on his resume, on Friday said quarterly profit fell 62 percent after a switch in wireless providers led to an inventory write-down, sending its shares to a nearly three-year low.

The consumer electronics retailer, which said it was hiring legal counsel to investigate the admission by CEO David Edmondson, also announced a new turnaround plan that includes closing 400 to 700 company-operated stores and liquidating slow-moving inventory.

The company said it was "unwise" to issue earnings forecasts for 2006 given the uncertainty of the turnaround plan, which could cost up to $100 million.

"We have been very cautious on (RadioShack's) ability to execute the wireless transition smoothly and are skeptical on the just-announced turnaround," Lehman Bros. analyst Alan Rifkin said in a note. "We would not be owners of (the) shares at this time."

RadioShack shares were down $1.61, or 7.8 percent, at $19.14 in afternoon New York Stock Exchange trading after touching as low as $19.02.

FALLING EARNINGS

Fourth-quarter earnings fell to $49.5 million, or 36 cents per share, from $130.9 million, or 81 cents per share, a year earlier.

According to Reuters Estimates, excluding 22 cents per share for the inventory write-down and a 2-cent charge for an accounting change, profit would have been 60 cents, which compares with the analysts' average forecast of 66 cents.

Sales rose 5 percent to $1.67 billion, compared with analysts' target of $1.62 billion.

The results come two days after Edmondson admitted that he lied about his academic record on his resume and on the company's Web site. The discrepancy was first reported earlier this week by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

At an investor conference, Edmondson began by apologizing for any embarrassment the situation caused and said the issue was now in the hands of the board.

As for the quarterly results, Edmondson said sales were "good" in low-margin nonwireless categories like MP3 players, but were weak in high-margin categories, like batteries. Sales of wireless products, a key profit driver, were below targets.

Last year, RadioShack said it would switch phone carrier partners to try to revive its wireless sales. It agreed to sell Cingular Wireless phones and cut ties with long-time ally Verizon Wireless. It also signed a new 11-year deal with Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE:S - news).

But the transition, which took place at the end of the year, turned out to be more difficult than expected.

On Friday, RadioShack said it took an inventory write-down of $62 million in the quarter, and it is replacing old, slower-moving merchandise like speaker wire and outdoor antennas with new, faster-moving items

"Our business model for many years has been based on high- margin, slow-moving products," Edmondson said during an investor presentation. "These products are taking up valuable space in the store that can be much more efficiently utilized."

RadioShack said it would liquidate some products, take "aggressive" mark-downs on others and let some stay on store shelves until they sell out. It will continue to sell some of the products on its Web site, though not in the stores.

The company also expects to add about 200 kiosks in 2006, relocate some stores to better sites, and close two distribution centers.

RadioShack, which has 7,000 company-owned and dealer stores, estimated it would incur costs of $55 million to $100 million on the inventory write-downs and store closures in 2006, although it may take some of the costs in 2007, depending on when it closes the stores.

"While the execution of the turnaround plan will trigger the recognition of significant costs," Edmondson said, "we are confident that the steps we are taking will put RadioShack back on the track to sustained profitable growth."

Not really suprised about this. Most of their stores nowadays are just glorified cell phone shops. And especially in such a throw-away "walmart" society that we have today, these stores don't make much sense any more. Most of these little small parts RS sells can be found online much cheaper without dealing with high-pressure Radio Shack employees. Stores located in smaller towns will still be good for some time though.

this radio shack is in the old stop and shop plaza in warwick ri on warwick ave

from http://www.kgiproperties.com/properties/location/16/

here is the radio shack in yonkers ny on cross country shopping center on central park ave

from http://www.siteride.com/srpl/p_snapshot.pl?lm=listing&resbox=1141430918&subNum=40214000001

here is the closing radio shack in brewer maine

radio shack closing in old town / orono maine, as of may 22, 2006

I have to agree with "Crawford" about the service because it is not consistent at all!!  I happened to see one of the stores near us that is closing and they have everything on a 60% reduction and I just about cleared them out of batteries.

It is such a shame that these chains don't recognize a good thing when they have it because this used to be a unique kind of store where you could find everything from steroe wire to turntable needles and everything else.  Why they decided to focus so much on cellphones when the whole world carries them now is beyond me?  

This just seems to be another example of the stores not listening to what the people really want and then just throwing bad idea after bad idea and running the company into the ground.  Let's hope that this is not the beginning of the end for them too.

:mad: :o :mad: :question:

One of ours closed because the Bigg's near it wouldn't let it have adequate parking!
.........
Or something to that effect.

St. Johnsbury, VT

I hate how they always ask for your name and address when you buy something from them. It bugs the crap out of me. It's like:

Can I have your name and address?

Why, you wanna come over and watch dirty movies with me? How about I get your name and address so if it doesn't work I can come over and kick your ass. How about that?

QuoteOriginally posted by amesman
I hate how they always ask for your name and address when you buy something from them. It bugs the crap out of me. It's like:

Can I have your name and address?

Why, you wanna come over and watch dirty movies with me? How about I get your name and address so if it doesn't work I can come over and kick your ass. How about that?

they did that to me in toys r us yestruday i was liek why do u want my adress and the lady said ohh u dont have to im just requrkled to say it

QuoteOriginally posted by amesman
I hate how they always ask for your name and address when you buy something from them. It bugs the crap out of me. It's like:

Can I have your name and address?

Why, you wanna come over and watch dirty movies with me? How about I get your name and address so if it doesn't work I can come over and kick your ass. How about that?

I know it can be annoying, but then it is possible they want that kept incase of proof of returns.

back to radio shack, my dad said the stores have had untrained help and do not know much and anything they have you can find anywhere. the nearest one to me is the one in the hatch plaza in plymouth nh (my town); the plaza that has hannaford and marshalls.

here is the radio shack in downtown presque isle

radio shack in ridgefield ct in the newly remodeled plaza

I could take them or leave them. The last thing I bought there was a replacement antenna for my boombox a few months ago. The Southington Radio Shack is one of only a few stores in the AMES Plaza that's been there for a long time. I was also treated poorly by an employee at the Bristol, Connecticut solely based on the fact that I was dressed like a street thug (baggy shorts, wifebeater, sideways Yankees hat, gold hoop eaaring). Why I even went there in the first place was because someone working the overnight shift at Shaw's decided to be cute and cut the wire for the Dish Network sateliite system we had in the break room. I mentioned it to the nite manager and she told me after I was done working for the day go over to Radio Shack and buy some new wire. I went in there dressed how I mentioned and I was told "What size do you need Dish Network Wires come in 5 or 6 different sizes." I told them they were wrong and walked out. I told the night manager at Shaw's and she said that Radio Shack was full of crap. (Well she used the "s" word). She had some extra wire at her house from when they put the Dish Network in at her house and the next day she brought it in and hooked it up.

QuoteOriginally posted by Marc82
I could take them or leave them. The last thing I bought there was a replacement antenna for my boombox a few months ago. The Southington Radio Shack is one of only a few stores in the AMES Plaza that's been there for a long time. I was also treated poorly by an employee at the Bristol, Connecticut solely based on the fact that I was dressed like a street thug (baggy shorts, wifebeater, sideways Yankees hat, gold hoop eaaring). Why I even went there in the first place was because someone working the overnight shift at Shaw's decided to be cute and cut the wire for the Dish Network sateliite system we had in the break room. I mentioned it to the nite manager and she told me after I was done working for the day go over to Radio Shack and buy some new wire. I went in there dressed how I mentioned and I was told "What size do you need Dish Network Wires come in 5 or 6 different sizes." I told them they were wrong and walked out. I told the night manager at Shaw's and she said that Radio Shack was full of crap. (Well she used the "s" word). She had some extra wire at her house from when they put the Dish Network in at her house and the next day she brought it in and hooked it up.

radio shack will be sending out pink slips to 400 to 450 workers.

radio shack in franklin nh

radio shack in portland me on brighton ave

the one in madawaska me

the one in fort kent me (THE NORTHERN MOST ONE IN US AND MAINE)

one in machais me

radio shack malone ny

Havent seen a thread on the board about this store so lets discuss radio shack here.

It's a completely different store than it used to be.  Essentially now it's a cell phone store.  I almost never see Radio Shack's that are actually parts and electronics stores anymore.

I know I usually go in there for hard-to-find electronics like connectors and led's and such.  I can imagine they make a lot of money off of the hard-to-find connectors and adapters they sell for things.  Things that people would rather pay a fortune for at Radio Shack rather than wait a week to get it shipped offline.

The signs on this one always fascinated me. Haven't seen another like it. Sadly it has been replaced with the newer logo.


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Where is that one?

QuoteOriginally posted by videogamer75
Where is that one?

Stamford, CT, next to what is now a Homegoods, but was at one time a Finast/Edwards/Stop & Shop.

Thanks!

I hear RadioShack is going to start selling video games and consoles soon. They are testing this by selling them on their website.

QuoteOriginally posted by videogamer75
Thanks!

I hear RadioShack is going to start selling video games and consoles soon. They are testing this by selling them on their website.

http://www.radioshack.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=2032401&cp=2032062

wow, over-priced.

Radio-Shack made a lot of money years back when DVD players came out.  Most people had TV's that had only the coaxial-in and no aux input which DVD players sport.  Radioshack made tons off those R/F modulator boxes after Chrismas when people were desperate to use their new DVD players and video game systems.  Since then anyone who has an older TV really doesn't have a choice.  Just about everyone I know has at least one in their house.

Myself, the only time I really go into Radio-Shack is if I'm looking for some rare wire connector/splitter/part/etc... and I don't feel like waiting for one off eBay.

Here is a picture of one of their products that, I believe, they don't sell anymore, the XR Series Cassette Tape.  The picture has it under it's original name of "Supertape" before it was changed to "Radio Shack".

Here's the one in The Queen Plaza on Queen Street in Souhtington. Plaza was home to Zayres (and later Ames), which is now Bed Bath Beyond and Bob's Discount Furniture.

http://technologizer.com/2009/08/03/nin-reasons-radioshack-shouldnt-change-its-name/

I was going through my VHS collection (which is held in my living room by a wheel-free red Ames cart) and found a tape off Nickelodeon from 1993 from the show Wild and Crazy Kids

I have no idea what mall they are in or what state or anything, but in one segment this Radio Shack is recognizable

1993
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Hey, I remember Wild & Crazy Kids! That show was awesome! Remember Double Dare, GUTS, and Legends of the Hidden Temple?

Anyone know when the Radio Shack in the KMART Plaza on Wolcott Street in Waterbury, CT closed? The adjacent Daycare Center took over that spot even though they didn't knock down the wall separating the space. You can still see Radio Shack on the window and see a sign on a fixture that says SPRINT Phones. By the way it looks like that daycare center takes up what at one time looks like could've been 4 or 5 different store fronts.

Radio Shack has been a good place to find TV antennas lately, especially flat HDTV antennas for indoor use, as well as the traditional rabbit ears. I've also seen other items, such as coaxial cables and radios, as well as flat screen TVs and radios. They also sell cell phones. I've seen Doc Brown and Marty McFly communicate back and forth using Archer Space Patrol walkie talkies that were purchased off-screen at Radio Shack (posibly back in 1985) in the movie "Back to the Future part II" in the 1955 scene, where Marty tracks down Biff and the stolen sports almanac. Radio Shack still sells walkie talkies just like those.

RadioShack is in search of its future store
By Maria Halkias, Dallas News

RadioShack opened its first new concept store on the Upper East Side of Manhattan today and more are planned for New York, New Jersey and Texas over the next several weeks. The store, located at 2268 Broadway (at 81st Street), is the beginning of a transformation that new CEO Joe Magnacca believes is necessary to attract younger customers and make the Fort Worth-based chain profitable again. Magnacca said in April that the first batch of stores would be in Manhattan. He joined RadioShack in February from Walgreens where he’s given credit for creating a new concept for Duane Reade drugstores in New York. The store is a living lab. While all its new features and displays have been tested with consumer panels and received positive grades, Magnacca said he knows from experience that’s not enough. “Based on my nearly 30 years in retail, I know that the proof of concept always comes when shoppers begin exploring the stores,” he said. The company plans to tweak as the test stores are studied. Each location will be configured to meet local buying patterns and neighborhood needs, the company said.

Here’s what’s different so far:

Interactive features include a speaker wall to test and compare before you buy on the shoppers own Bluetooth-enabled mobile devices.

There are new displays by brand for Apple, HTC and Samsung, AT&T and Verizon.

Touch screens and apps are used to explore and explain product benefits.

The staff has received extra training.

Finally, the new stores come with new branding: “RadioShack: Let’s Play.”

Better than “The Shack” huh? To me, that sounded like a fast food restaurant, not a chain that can help me out with electronic needs. And the word radio isn’t really that outdated, is it? It’s still a very much alive concept for most of us, even though it’s less and less accessible from the twist of a knob.


New RadioShack logo:
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New exterior:
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New interior:
(http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/files/2013/07/RSHspeakerWall-1024x680.jpg)

Since a new thread was started just to discuss a new RadioShack commercial today, I came to this thread to ask a question I've had for awhile: does RadioShack still have any clearance outlet stores? There once was one in Atlanta in the same shopping center as a regular RadioShack, but both stores closed long ago, around 2000.

Radio Shack may file Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/radioshack-says-it-may-need-file-bankruptcy-n200851

Quote from: Marc B on September 11, 2014, 02:13:50 PM
Radio Shack may file Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/radioshack-says-it-may-need-file-bankruptcy-n200851

Honestly, who didn't see this coming? I give them 5 years top before they go under.

Here's a late 1970's picture of the former Radio Shack that was at 2932 Biddle Avenue in Wyandotte, Michigan. A Progressive insurance agent office now occupies that spot (and the building itself looks totally different today).
(http://placepromo.com/WY/group01/bid2926.jpg)

And here's where it relocated to, 14100 Fort Street in neighboring Southgate, where it continues to operate. It may have relocated in the mid-to-late 1980's.
(http://i.imgur.com/xewH7Yy.jpg)

If they make it at all, I suspect there will be very few if any corporate stores remaining and the local small-town dealer-franchisees will dominate what remains of the chain.

Hudsons81 - That building where Radio Shack is today is very cool looking.

They need to revert to their core business.
Teenage guys building pirate radio stations.  ;D

The end is close at hand
http://investorplace.com/2014/12/radioshack-stock-rsh-monday/#.VJgsTl4Bds

Quote from: retailisking on December 22, 2014, 09:51:31 AM
The end is close at hand
http://investorplace.com/2014/12/radioshack-stock-rsh-monday/#.VJgsTl4Bds

Yea they are on their last leg. I bet by next year they will be or be in the process of GOB.

Quote from: TRU7536 on December 22, 2014, 05:41:23 PM

Quote from: retailisking on December 22, 2014, 09:51:31 AM
The end is close at hand
http://investorplace.com/2014/12/radioshack-stock-rsh-monday/#.VJgsTl4Bds

Yea they are on their last leg. I bet by next year they will be or be in the process of GOB.

That will be 6,000 to 9,000  stores they will be closing

In Southington, Connecticut Radio Shack has been in the same plaza since the 1970s. I think it may have been one of the plaza's original tenants. At just over 2,500 Square Feet it might be hard to fill the space. It's in the Queen Plaza which was built in the 70s with a Zayre that is now Bed Bath Beyond and Bob's Discount Furniture.

In Bristol, Connecticut they are in their second location in The Bristol Commons - the Price Chopper Plaza. They may even have been somewhere else in the plaza at one point before the overhauled the plaza in the early 90s. I'm not sure though. Originally they were located on the Price Chopper side of the plaza (formerly Caldor). Then they moved to the other side of the plaza in a spa ce that was once a bank and then a children's consignment store called Once Upon a Child. (They moved into a bigger store front elsewhere in the plaza). There is a small 1100 Square Foot Store front that is empty that looks like it's directly in back of Radio Shack. Maybe when Radio Shack closes they can combine the 2 spaces. As it is they're redoing that section of the plaza. Next to the Radio Shack are 2 side by side spaces that were once KB Toy Works and Fashion Bug (later Rainbow). See page 2: http://fairfieldretail.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Bristol-Commons_Annex_041714.pdf (Note: This is the latest version of the lease plan. It's not up-to-date. Space 2 is now Aaron Rental. Space 11 I believe is part of the expansion of Planet Fitness. Space 12 is now empty. Space 19 is now a Military Recruitment Office). Space 14 is Radio Shack and Space 17 is the 1100 Square Foot Space I mentioned in back of Radio Shack.

There was another Radio Shack in Bristol. It was at the now demolished Mall at Bristol Centre. It closed several years before the mall did. It was really too bad because the employees at the mall store were much nicer than the ones at the Bristol Commons Store. As it is I don't understand why they had 2 stores so close together. The 2 stores were 9/10ths of a mile apart!

Waterbury, Connecticut had a couple of locations. 2 that I know of in recent memory. One on Wolcott Street in the former KMART Plaza and one at The Brass Mill Mall. The one at the former KMART Plaza is part of a daycare center that takes up 5 store fronts. I don't know if it still does or not, but for a while the Radio Shack fixtures were still in there even though it was taken over by the daycare. It's been quite a number of years since Radio Shack closed. I don't know if the one at the Brass Mill Mall is still open or not.

The Newington store must have been with the plaza since it was built, which was about 1987. The plaza underwent a facelift about 10 years ago. Radio Shack is at the very end of the JoAnn plaza on the north side. Modell's, which used to be KB Toy Works is next door. I'm sure the space would be filled rather quickly. Another vacancy in the plaza is the former Planet Fitness, which moved.

The Radio Shack in Neshaminy Mall has been their spot since 1974, when the Lit Brothers wing was built.

The Radio Shack at the Westfield Meriden Square in Meriden, Connecticut is having a Going Out Business sale. Technically they're calling it a Clearance Sale, but usually when stores have Clearance Sales the walls aren't bare and people don't have to dig through boxes of crap to find stuff to buy.

RadioShack has definitely accelerated its rate of store closures in the past two months but it isn't nearly enough to avoid BK. Even now, 90% of Americans live within five miles of a RadioShack store, and there are 23 RadioShacks within  a 25-mile radius of Sacramento, to cite one example of how much RadioShack is overstored.

I stopped in their mall location in Salisbury, MD this weekend. The signs just said clearance, 25% off everything in the store, but it sure looked like a closing sale. Lots of empty shelves. I had a good chat with an employee who said corporate was closing one of the their three stores in town, but they hadn't officially decided which one yet. One of the others is in a dead shopping center (not terribly old, but the anchor was a Super Fresh that closed.) The landlord has dropped rent to only $500/month! The main thing that lead me into the store was their surprisingly competitive price on HP ink cartridges, especially with the sale.

Business as usual at the Southington, Connecticut Radio Shack.

Green clearance sign on a window at the Southgate, Michigan Radio Shack. Didn't go inside, though-was driving at the time.

I don't live within five miles of a RadioShack anymore. I think they closed the three immediately around me - one of which was a fairly new location in an affluent plaza - and, if you look at Google Maps, there's ONE RadioShack between the cluster of stores in and around Cleveland and the three that line US Route 250 over in Sandusky.

Guess they don't want my business. Ironically, Kmart, Quiznos Subs, and RadioShack are all 'prospering' around the Lorain/Amherst, OH border, while other locations in different - sometimes, nicer - areas of town were closed down. I'm actually surprised that the one remaining Cici's Pizza franchise isn't down there, too. (There WAS one, but it closed down. Oh, the irony.)

(Also, my apologies if I missed it, but did RadioShack have any sort of closing sales, or did they just disappear?)

The thing that keeps radio Shack surviving in the  not so good parts of towns is there prepaid phones  Dish network etc
Sold a lot of prepaid dish when i worked there.

They could file as soon as February
http://www.wsj.com/articles/radioshack-prepares-bankruptcy-filing-1421279360

Quote from: Hudsons81 on January 06, 2015, 02:42:53 PM
Green clearance sign on a window at the Southgate, Michigan Radio Shack. Didn't go inside, though-was driving at the time.

Additional details have been revealed: I went by there again yesterday and this time I was able to see through the windows into the store-not a single shelf was bare, nor were they heading that way.

Apparently they are in talks to sell half of their stores to Sprint
and close the rest.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-02/radioshack-is-said-to-discuss-liquidation-as-part-of-sprint-deal

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2015/02/02/radioshack-bankruptcy-sprint/22755539/

It's getting interesting!  A more intriguing suitor has arrived at the table.

http://www.wirelessweek.com/news/2015/02/report-amazon-interested-radio-shack-stores?et_cid=4396494&et_rid=82422372&location=top

Quote from: TheFugitive on February 03, 2015, 12:46:44 PM
It's getting interesting!  A more intriguing suitor has arrived at the table.

http://www.wirelessweek.com/news/2015/02/report-amazon-interested-radio-shack-stores?et_cid=4396494&et_rid=82422372&location=top

I think amazon is a Better idea than Sprint.

Before he started Amazon Jeff Bezos studied RadioShack's method of distributing product to their stores.

Quote from: Marc B on December 28, 2014, 01:37:09 PM
The Radio Shack at the Westfield Meriden Square in Meriden, Connecticut is having a Going Out Business sale. Technically they're calling it a Clearance Sale, but usually when stores have Clearance Sales the walls aren't bare and people don't have to dig through boxes of crap to find stuff to buy.

The one at the Westfield Meriden Square Mall is gone as of Monday February 2nd. In an article in The Meriden Record-Journal about the closing of Sears Appliance and Hardware in Wallingford it mentions the uncertain future of Radio Shack which is located in the same plaza as the closing Sears Appliance and Hardware Store. A person at that store says Radio Shack still has several years left on their lease there.

Did anyone else get a CueCat bar code scanner at Radio Shack years back? You took the device which you hooked up to your computer scan a product bar code with it and it would bring up the product's website.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat

Radio Shack in  Southington, CT is open and there's a sign in the window that says "We're Open. 94 Years and Counting. #teamradioshack".

The RadioShack at Neshaminy Mall, Bensalem, PA is closing after being open since 1974

The Radio Shack at Colonie Center in Colonie, NY is closing up for good as well, although it's still listed on the Radio Shack site.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7698/16655314574_fab364aa49_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rnLQL7)Colonie Center - Colonie, NY (https://flic.kr/p/rnLQL7) by snappyjack1 (https://www.flickr.com/people/39251796@N05/), on Flickr

Using the Radio Shack store locator, its telling me only 2 stores are open in CT. Bristol and Watertown.

It seems like the Radio Shack in Southgate, Michigan is still open right now.

Vintage Radio Shack ad, probably not in good taste nowadays.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7626/16637606010_7c51ec8229_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rmd5C3)Radio Shack Ad, Late 1940s (https://flic.kr/p/rmd5C3) by harvestmanman (https://www.flickr.com/people/124303530@N08/), on Flickr

The former location in Owings Mills, MD...
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5554/14310058665_f7529f8674_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nNwMTp)Owings Mills Mall, Owings Mills, MD (https://flic.kr/p/nNwMTp) by harvestmanman (https://www.flickr.com/people/124303530@N08/), on Flickr
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3673/14123398769_c73f65e9a4_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nw37pk)Owings Mills Mall, Owings Mills, MD (https://flic.kr/p/nw37pk) by harvestmanman (https://www.flickr.com/people/124303530@N08/), on Flickr

...and the closed location in Florence, KY, which has now been boarded up.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7355/15809693434_88851a1306_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/q63P4h)Former RadioShack, Florence Mall (https://flic.kr/p/q63P4h) by harvestmanman (https://www.flickr.com/people/124303530@N08/), on Flickr

The closing location inside Cincinnati's Carew Tower...still open as of a couple days ago.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7674/16874306478_8339abfe21_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rH8eqA)Radio Shack, Carew Tower (https://flic.kr/p/rH8eqA) by harvestmanman (https://www.flickr.com/people/124303530@N08/), on Flickr


And the Newport, KY location, which has received a new logo and is still doing just fine, thank you very much.
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8645/16443467807_9d064aac2c_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/r4456D)RadioShack, Newport, KY (https://flic.kr/p/r4456D) by harvestmanman (https://www.flickr.com/people/124303530@N08/), on Flickr

I can't believe when I took pictures inside the now-demolished Bristol Center Mall in Bristol, CT 9 years ago I forgot to take a picture of the old Radio Shack. They had already been closed for several years before they closed the mall 9 years ago.

Quote from: Marc B on May 06, 2015, 04:23:02 AM
I can't believe when I took pictures inside the now-demolished Bristol Center Mall in Bristol, CT 9 years ago I forgot to take a picture of the old Radio Shack. They had already been closed for several years before they closed the mall 9 years ago.

I feel your pain.

I'm glad myself that I took a picture of the old Radio Shack inside Northland Center in Southfield, Michigan back in March, a month before the entire mall closed permanently. This Radio Shack had already been closed for quite a long time.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-j-MhogmegOE/VP8Yz7REMBI/AAAAAAAAB8Y/k8aw-RMK5Cs/s1600/IMG_1138.JPG)

Plus, the location on Woodward in midtown Detroit that just closed had the current logo. What a waste there. In addition, the condominium it's in is on somewhat of a death spiral, as the Biggby Coffee in there also just closed.

Quote from: Marc B on April 30, 2015, 12:18:36 PM
Radio Shack in  Southington, CT is open and there's a sign in the window that says "We're Open. 94 Years and Counting. #teamradioshack".

The RadioShack in Hammonton, NJ has a similar sign.

The Radio Shack stores are failing in my area, while some locally-owned Radio Shack Dealer stores in my area are doing just fine.

Two Radio Shack dealers in my area:
* Sound Check Radio Shack, Mountain Bay Plaza, Pulaski, Wisconsin
* Oconto Electric Cooperative Radio Shack, Highland Square, Oconto Falls, Wisconsin

That Shack location I posted about in the Carew Tower is still open...but only until Friday.

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3840/18484477343_7d541045c3_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/uapM8e)RadioShack, Carew Tower (https://flic.kr/p/uapM8e) by Harvestman Man (https://www.flickr.com/photos/124303530@N08/), on Flickr

I'm kind of tempted to make them an offer for that cool neon sign...wonder what my chances would be of getting it on the last day of the sale.

(edit: apparently very slim, as they closed a day early!)

That Radio Shack in Southgate, Michigan is presumably still open, as it's still on Google Maps.

The Radio Shack at Neshaminy Mall, Bensalem ,Pa is down to it's last 3 days.  The  Radio Shack locations at Oxford Valley Mall, Langhorne, PA, and Roosevelt Mall, Philadelphia, Pa are still going strong, and listed on the Radio Shack website.

Someone should get a few of the closed stores and remake Radio Shack to what is was in the 60s and 70s - electronic kits and parts for radios, r/c toys and batteries. They were mismanaged lately...

Sadly, I don't think there is much of a market for electronic kits any more. Electronics have become "magic boxes" with "no user-serviceable parts inside", so the days of building your own equipment are probably gone for good.  Besides, online sources provide scads of parts for the enterprising electronics repairperson at cheaper prices than RadioShack ever had.

The now shuttered Radioshack at Neshaminy Mall is one of 3 former stores in that mall, along with the former Dollar tree and Kay Bee Toys sites, that will be converted into extra space for Boscov's

One of the former Radio Shack stores on Green Bay's west side became Cricket Wireless.

Quote from: ShopKoFan on July 28, 2015, 03:03:27 PM
One of the former Radio Shack stores on Green Bay's west side became Cricket Wireless.

As has the one in Westgate Plaza in Albany (NY).

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/481/19966155049_07bf7a80da_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/wqkLhz)Former RadioShack, Carew Tower (https://flic.kr/p/wqkLhz) by Harvestman Man (https://www.flickr.com/photos/124303530@N08/), on Flickr

Former location in Eastgate Mall, Union Township, OH.

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/509/20126617976_cd4737f7f4_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/wEwbjL)Former RadioShack, Eastgate Mall (https://flic.kr/p/wEwbjL) by Harvestman Man (https://www.flickr.com/photos/124303530@N08/), on Flickr

Former location at Southland Center, Taylor, Michigan.
(http://i.imgur.com/X3NczpX.jpg)

Former Woodhaven, Michigan location. (source (http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2015/08/14/news/doc55cdf778ce23e319703743.txt))
(http://www.thenewsherald.com/content/articles/2015/08/14/news/doc55cdf778ce23e319703743.jpg)

The former Radio Shack at Studio One Plaza in midtown Detroit is now an AT&T store.

Meanwhile, the Radio Shack in Southgate, Michigan is still in operation-and it is not slated for closure any time soon.

Closing TONS of stores because of their bankruptcy, most of them in northeast CT/southeast MA have closed already.

Turning around RadioShack was always going to be a hard slog, but word has it Sprint has pulled out of the partnership and HQ has quietly laid off all merchandising and marketing people and all but two of its replenishment people. Liquidation could come within 90 days. Note the comments...
http://www.twice.com/radioshack-profits-are-prime-directive/64297

2 former inner city Radio Shack locations  are now Sprint Stores.

196 East Main Street New Britain, Connecticut in the New Brite Plaza.

63 Overlook Terrace Hartford, CT in the Charter Oak Market Place Plaza.

Both plazas are owned by Paramount Realty.

Last week Spanish Station Bomba-FM did a remote from the New Britain store. This week Bomba will be at the Hartford location. Hip-Hop station HOT 93.7 will be at the New Britain location this weekend.

1987 footage of two stores in California (one in a shopping center and one in a mall):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNjlC95esFk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNjlC95esFk)

The corporate stores are closed, but the dealer stores, however, are what's keeping Radio Shack alive...

The politically incorrect Radio Shack ad posted above in this thread is actually quite interesting.  It was published during World War II.  Amateur radio was essentially shut-down by Congress during World War II over fears of espionage.  There were severe penalties for being in radio contact with someone outside of the United States for example.  The government built a bunch of elaborate monitoring stations to find and track down unauthorized broadcasts. 

This obviously would have put a big crimp into Radio Shack's business since they were all about servicing HAM operators and hobbyists at that time.  So they pivoted to supplying parts for the military.  Almost all of the people who held amateur licenses at the time were men, and the vast majority of those were in the military anyway, where their skills were put to use in the Signal Corps.

Quote from: TheFugitive on January 11, 2024, 12:51:01 PMThe politically incorrect Radio Shack ad posted above in this thread is actually quite interesting.  It was published during World War II.  Amateur radio was essentially shut-down by Congress during World War II over fears of espionage.  There were severe penalties for being in radio contact with someone outside of the United States for example.  The government built a bunch of elaborate monitoring stations to find and track down unauthorized broadcasts. 

This obviously would have put a big crimp into Radio Shack's business since they were all about servicing HAM operators and hobbyists at that time.  So they pivoted to supplying parts for the military.  Almost all of the people who held amateur licenses at the time were men, and the vast majority of those were in the military anyway, where their skills were put to use in the Signal Corps.

Of course, at that time Radio Shack was a very small company, primarily in the Boston (MA) area - even when Tandy took them over out of what was basically bankruptcy (aka a negative net worth) in 1962, they had only nine stores (the furthest out was Syracuse, NY), though they did at that point have a fair amount of mail order that was causing some of their financial issues (trying to ship large, heavy equipment that was easily damaged in transit).

Quote from: BillyGr on January 11, 2024, 07:21:15 PM

Quote from: TheFugitive on January 11, 2024, 12:51:01 PMThe politically incorrect Radio Shack ad posted above in this thread is actually quite interesting.  It was published during World War II.  Amateur radio was essentially shut-down by Congress during World War II over fears of espionage.  There were severe penalties for being in radio contact with someone outside of the United States for example.  The government built a bunch of elaborate monitoring stations to find and track down unauthorized broadcasts.

In 1962 most of what they had to ship would have been vacuum-tube based.  Meaning heavy and fragile. 

Quote from: BillyGr on January 11, 2024, 07:21:15 PM

Quote from: TheFugitive on January 11, 2024, 12:51:01 PMThe politically incorrect Radio Shack ad posted above in this thread is actually quite interesting.  It was published during World War II.  Amateur radio was essentially shut-down by Congress during World War II over fears of espionage.  There were severe penalties for being in radio contact with someone outside of the United States for example.  The government built a bunch of elaborate monitoring stations to find and track down unauthorized broadcasts. 

This obviously would have put a big crimp into Radio Shack's business since they were all about servicing HAM operators and hobbyists at that time.  So they pivoted to supplying parts for the military.  Almost all of the people who held amateur licenses at the time were men, and the vast majority of those were in the military anyway, where their skills were put to use in the Signal Corps.

Of course, at that time Radio Shack was a very small company, primarily in the Boston (MA) area - even when Tandy took them over out of what was basically bankruptcy (aka a negative net worth) in 1962, they had only nine stores (the furthest out was Syracuse, NY), though they did at that point have a fair amount of mail order that was causing some of their financial issues (trying to ship large, heavy equipment that was easily damaged in transit).

This obviously would have put a big crimp into Radio Shack's business since they were all about servicing HAM operators and hobbyists at that time.  So they pivoted to supplying parts for the military.  Almost all of the people who held amateur licenses at the time were men, and the vast majority of those were in the military anyway, where their skills were put to use in the Signal Corps.

Of course, at that time Radio Shack was a very small company, primarily in the Boston (MA) area - even when Tandy took them over out of what was basically bankruptcy (aka a negative net worth) in 1962, they had only nine stores (the furthest out was Syracuse, NY), though they did at that point have a fair amount of mail order that was causing some of their financial issues (trying to ship large, heavy equipment that was easily damaged in transit).

You are correct.  In 1962 most of what they sold would have been based on vacuum tubes.  So, heavy and fragile.  Difficult to ship.