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http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/dallas\/blog\/techflash\/2015\/02\/radioshack-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search&google_editors_picks=true<\/a><\/p>\n

Where would you go if you needed some batteries? Test an 6SJ7? Buy a boom box? A 50k ohm resistor? A siren fireman’s hat for your 4 year old?<\/p>\n

Well, not Radio Shack any longer. Radio Shack used to get people excited by demanding your name and address even if you were buying a $.20 transistor and paying cash. They would flood your mailbox with catalogs showing you all the latest cool stuff, like the TRS-80 personal computer.<\/p>\n

Well that was then, and this is now. Radio Shack has focused its business lately on selling Sprint cell phones. Sprint is expected to take over the better stores and close the rest.<\/p>\n

If it isn’t clear why Amazon is interested – a couple years ago they cut a deal to rent space in the now empty backrooms of radio shack stores for same day delivery service. The delivery person would enter the back room, open up the locked storage cabinet, and pull out the cute SpongeBob Squarepants toy someone ordered, close it back up and be on their way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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