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by epcoa 624 days ago
> I'm not sure what I would have done differently in their place.

Microcenter. Granted much larger and fewer store model, not a slot next to Orange Julius.

But RadioShack was famously cluelessly managed for years.

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Right plus that was the transformation that was happening that they didn't follow - electronics and gadgets out of the mall and into big box stores like Best Buy and Circuit City.

Tough too to get by on small parts for minor repairs when things break rarely and then aren't worth fixing. Time was grocery stores had little tube tester kiosks, you know. That said, Batteries Plus seems to have a business.

Radioshack did try to create electronics megacenters.

Incredible Universe was very similar to Frys and catered mostly to consumer electronics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incredible_Universe

I love the The Onion’s parody interview of Radio Shack’s CEO. It was an epic rant.

https://theonion.com/even-ceo-cant-figure-out-how-radioshack...

> "Even the name ’RadioShack’—can you imagine two less appealing words placed next to one another?”

This made me chuckle.