Wow. That's sad news, but not surprising - as you said, they've been dying a slow death for a long time. Yes, their decision to focus on the long-saturated cell phone market at the expense of a sector they controlled handily is inscrutable. Sadly, their bean counters have been getting it wrong for decades.
I will always remember fondly, the Radio Shack of my youth. I would ride my bicycle to the neighborhood Shack - nearly every day during summer vacation - and buy components for my projects to inadvertently cold-solder, and ogle all the radio gear I couldn't afford. Remember the "Free Battery Club" card? Good times. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 3, 2015, at 5:58 AM, Scott Medbury via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > <image001.gif> > Radio Shack stock has been delisted by the New York Stock Exchange. > > Rumor has it that they will be closing half of their stores and selling the > rest to Sprint. > > More proof that they have been dying a slow death ever since they made the > decision to emphasize cell phones over the other products like components and > hobbyist sector of their business where they had their roots. > > 73... Scott KD5FBA > > > Scott Medbury > 16802 Aprilmont Drive > Sugar Land, TX 77498-1941 > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
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