Sooner Boomer
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Looks like the old Rat Shack is about to sail into the sunset. At the end of the day Thursday, shares closed at $0.26. From the USA Today stock page (https://www.usatoday.com/money/lookup/stocks/RSH/), they had a terrible past two years. Bankruptcy and sale for assets can only be just around the corner.
They've received a lot of criticism in the past several years for not having a definitive brand image, as being little more than cell phone resellers.
I remember the first "Radio Shack" I went into. It was a few aisles in a Clark's dept. store in Abilene, TX, in (I think 1969). The salesman in charge of that section (I think they moved him over from shoes) was clueless about anything and everything electronic. They improved.
Growing up in a small town in Southern Oklahoma, I was centrally located in the middle of nowhere. Radio Shack was one of the small bright spots of technology, then. It was a franchise store, not a company-owned, and I think that gave the manager a bit more flexibility about what and how much he carried. I got the electronic experimenters kits for Christmases and birthdays. I think I built just about every one of the so-called "P-kits" they sold. The great thing about Radio Shack was, that wherever you went in the US, there was probably a store nearby.
Even though it's been a while since I've been in one, I'm going to miss them when they're gone. There's no where else close by for the sorts of stuff, the connecters, and wires, and parts, and bits of stuff that they carry. Sure, I can mail order stuff off of the internet, and probably even cheaper, but I'm old fashioned - I like to hold things in my hand and look at them before I buy them.
And I've bought a LOT of stuff from them over the years. Just looking around the room, there are speakers, wires, digital thermometer, (X-10) remote control stuff, calculators, headphones. Plus there are storage totes out in the garage full of parts and bits I've accumulated. There's even a CoCo2, new in box. I could go on for a while about how my life was touched by this company, but I think you get the picture. Gonna miss 'em.
They've received a lot of criticism in the past several years for not having a definitive brand image, as being little more than cell phone resellers.
I remember the first "Radio Shack" I went into. It was a few aisles in a Clark's dept. store in Abilene, TX, in (I think 1969). The salesman in charge of that section (I think they moved him over from shoes) was clueless about anything and everything electronic. They improved.
Growing up in a small town in Southern Oklahoma, I was centrally located in the middle of nowhere. Radio Shack was one of the small bright spots of technology, then. It was a franchise store, not a company-owned, and I think that gave the manager a bit more flexibility about what and how much he carried. I got the electronic experimenters kits for Christmases and birthdays. I think I built just about every one of the so-called "P-kits" they sold. The great thing about Radio Shack was, that wherever you went in the US, there was probably a store nearby.
Even though it's been a while since I've been in one, I'm going to miss them when they're gone. There's no where else close by for the sorts of stuff, the connecters, and wires, and parts, and bits of stuff that they carry. Sure, I can mail order stuff off of the internet, and probably even cheaper, but I'm old fashioned - I like to hold things in my hand and look at them before I buy them.
And I've bought a LOT of stuff from them over the years. Just looking around the room, there are speakers, wires, digital thermometer, (X-10) remote control stuff, calculators, headphones. Plus there are storage totes out in the garage full of parts and bits I've accumulated. There's even a CoCo2, new in box. I could go on for a while about how my life was touched by this company, but I think you get the picture. Gonna miss 'em.