Retail Graveyard

According to The Onion “Even CEO Can’t Figure Out How RadioShack Still in Business”

“Every location is full of bizarre adapters, random chargers, and old boom boxes, and some sales guy is constantly hovering over you. It’s like walking into your grandpa’s basement. You always expect to see something cool, but it never delivers.”

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Confession: I’m a Ham operator and even I can’t figure out why RadioShack still exists. There was a time when you could get a decent shortwave receiver, a build your own AM radio kit or enough electronic components to keep a geeky teenage boy busy for days. Now the Internet and mail order has taken over the retail side of the radio and electronics hobby. Ironically, it is the existance of larger Internet-based retailers that have saved hobbies like shortwave, Ham radio, astronomy and a great deal of other old school pursuits.

RadioShack seems destined to join Gimbles, Mays and Crazy Eddies on the dust heap of retail history. But somehow it lingers on.

There are a lot of stores in the mall like that. Would you even care if American Eagle or Brookstone closed down? Did you notice the demise of the Sharper Image? The future of retailing looks bleak, especially after this year.

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