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Offline endicom

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RadioShack to open 100 express locations
« on: July 26, 2018, 01:44:23 pm »
Market Watch
Tonya Garcia
July 26, 2018

Consumer electronics retailer RadioShack has announced that it will open more than 100 express locations across the U.S. Founded in 1921, the company filed for bankruptcy in March 2017, two years after a previous bankruptcy filing. More recently, the company has focused on e-commerce and has grown to more than 400 dealer locations. Last week, it announced a partnership with HobbyTown, a hobby and toy retailer, which will bring RadioShack-branded merchandise to 60 HobbyTown franchise locations.

More... https://www.marketwatch.com/story/radioshack-to-open-100-express-locations-2018-07-26?mod=newsviewer_click


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Re: RadioShack to open 100 express locations
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2018, 01:52:22 pm »
Our radio shack just closed here last year. Hate to say it but I went there all the time , I just tell them I have a dam cell phone. then go get what I need.  :seeya:
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Re: RadioShack to open 100 express locations
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2018, 02:33:25 pm »
Quote from: endicom on July 26, 2018, 01:44:23 pm
Market Watch
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Re: RadioShack to open 100 express locations
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2018, 02:46:39 pm »
This is great news. The 8-Track player in my '77 Newport is on the fritz. Now I can go get a new one.

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Re: RadioShack to open 100 express locations
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2018, 05:54:42 pm »
Yahoo!
I found the Radio Shack thread!
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Re: RadioShack to open 100 express locations
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2018, 05:56:44 pm »
I used to love it when they used to ask for my information, whenever I went in there to buy cheap 9 volt batteries.
I didn't know a store cared so much about me.
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Re: RadioShack to open 100 express locations
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2018, 06:04:36 pm »
Quote from: GrouchoTex on July 26, 2018, 05:56:44 pm
I used to love it when they used to ask for my information, whenever I went in there to buy cheap 9 volt batteries.
I didn't know a store cared so much about me.


I think that must have lost them customers.

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Re: RadioShack to open 100 express locations
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2018, 06:09:03 pm »
Quote from: endicom on July 26, 2018, 06:04:36 pm

I think that must have lost them customers.

It was pretty annoying.
I've wonder if anyone ever got stalked or ripped off because of it.
I was pretty innocent, all they wanted it for was to send you flyers.
Yet, human nature being what it is, I was leery.
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Re: RadioShack to open 100 express locations
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2018, 06:34:47 pm »
I have a Fry's, a Microcenter nearby plus several Best Buy's. Walmart has good prices and drops online orders to a store nearby.

I'm adept at shopping with Amazon, and I have FedEx and Kohl's nearby to help easily to Amazon returns.

Radio Shack may well be aiming at a niche, too. 
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Re: RadioShack to open 100 express locations
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2018, 06:43:01 pm »
Back in the day they built a great office building on a hill over looking the Trinity River in downtown Cowtown.   I think it is a college now.  RS was the bomb.  Clock boy could have really built one if he had shopped RS.
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Re: RadioShack to open 100 express locations
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2018, 07:04:13 pm »
In the 70's I built and learned a lot from their "P-Box" electronic kits. Would save my money to buy them... I listened to a lot of shortwave radio with my regenerative 3 transistor radio kit... So Radio Shack holds a special place for me in my childhood.
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Re: RadioShack to open 100 express locations
« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2018, 07:41:17 pm »
Quote from: DB on July 26, 2018, 07:04:13 pm
In the 70's I built and learned a lot from their "P-Box" electronic kits. Would save my money to buy them... I listened to a lot of shortwave radio with my regenerative 3 transistor radio kit... So Radio Shack holds a special place for me in my childhood.
Remember Heathkit?
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Re: RadioShack to open 100 express locations
« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2018, 07:52:32 pm »
Quote from: GtHawk on July 26, 2018, 07:41:17 pm
Remember Heathkit?

Heathkit came later for me. And yes I do... I had a Heath 40 MHz scope, signal generator, frequency counter, analog FET multimeter, analog AC voltmeter (1 mV to 300 V full scale), pen chart recorder, grid-dip meter, geiger counter, HAM antenna tuner, 1 kW dummy load and 100 Watt SSB HAM radio transceiver... And more... It was a sad day when they closed down. I recently moved from California to Arizona and gave much of the above away before I moved. It all still worked...
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Re: RadioShack to open 100 express locations
« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2018, 08:10:52 pm »
Quote from: GtHawk on July 26, 2018, 07:41:17 pm
Remember Heathkit?

My friend built a Heathkit guitar amplifier.
A solid state version of a Fender Twin reverb.
I actually sounded pretty good, for a solid state.
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Re: RadioShack to open 100 express locations
« Reply #14 on: July 26, 2018, 10:14:48 pm »
Quote from: DB on July 26, 2018, 07:52:32 pm
Heathkit came later for me. And yes I do... I had a Heath 40 MHz scope, signal generator, frequency counter, analog FET multimeter, analog AC voltmeter (1 mV to 300 V full scale), pen chart recorder, grid-dip meter, geiger counter, HAM antenna tuner, 1 kW dummy load and 100 Watt SSB HAM radio transceiver... And more... It was a sad day when they closed down. I recently moved from California to Arizona and gave much of the above away before I moved. It all still worked...
I still have a Heathkit Dwell/Tach, well I gave to my BIL for his Corvair after I sold my Studebaker and it still works as well as the day it was made some forty five years ago.
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