Earlier this year, I wrote Radio Shack: Still Relevant for Neighborhood Engineers? after hearing that the chain was closing some 1100 stores. Recently, news broke that the company may go bankrupt. Do ...
For years I had an old Radio Shack — note the space between the words — “battery of the month club” card in my desk drawer. It is probably still back in Texas somewhere, never making my move to ...
Pundits say it won’t save the company and others don’t really care, but RadioShack today officially kicked off its efforts to be known as “The Shack.” The electronics retailer that began selling radio ...
Several generations of home electronics hobbyists, ham radio enthusiasts and computer nerds spent their growth-spurt years haunting their local RadioShack stores. They can’t be happy about the company ...
It’s a beautiful day in Los Angeles, but one step inside one of the city’s remaining Radio Shacks sends you right back into a very sad past. I have been tasked with surveying some of the few remaining ...
There was a time when Radio Shack offered an incredible variety of supplies for the electronics hobbyist. In the back of each store, past the displays of Realistic 8-track players, Minimus-7 speakers, ...