clfe wrote:

the front. Radio Shack selling basically the same thing the others do - with
the exception of a few things, will peter out. I give them 10 years tops. I
hope I'm wrong, but I doubt it. I think their era has come and gone.

clf

10 years? No way. In recent years I've had a few instances to go into
a RS looking for stuff for the kids like videogame machines and just odd
random non-radio related stuff. They aren't competitive with that stuff
either.

Seems to me that they are 'surviving' off of their convenience aspect
since most of their urban stores are located in malls and many smaller
towns that don't have the big box stores and malls at least have an RS
franchise...but they never have a very good stock of anything. When you
go into a RS and they can't fit you with a new cellphone battery whats left?

My bet is that there are a lot of red ink stores in their chain and the
poor franchisees are basically working only to have a job and to try and
salvage their investment. I suspect if it weren't for their franchising
schemes the name Radio Shack would be long gone already.

-Bill M