RIP Radio Shack

[Shropshire Slasher]

Stock has been delisted and company will sell half its remaining stores to Sprint, shutting the rest.

Update: New York Stock Exchange moves to delist Radio Shack stock amid talk of Sprint sale, shutdown | Dallas Morning News

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

Inevitable, but sad nonetheless. Still remember the commercials for walkie-talkies and CBs around Christmastime.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Better stock up on acoustic couplers for the TRS-80!

 

[Songbird]

Those ****ing couplers.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Is my Herald-issued trash-80 in the basement now a valuable collector's item? And oh, those ****ing couplers!

 

[HanSenSE]

Will Sprint honor my Battery Club membership?

 

[The Big Ragu]

Almost a year to the day.

 

[goalmouth]

I once expensed a $75 cab ride to buy acoustic couplers at Radio Shack.

 

[mpcincal]

Hadn't been there too often in recent years, but I always hate to see a longtime national chain like that close. Plus, they have a location in my town, and I hate to see another empty storefront.

 

[JayFarrar]

An old Radio Shack ad is floating around on the Internet. Full page newspaper ad, 1980, 1981.

Every single piece of electronics on it, I can do with my phone. There's maybe 20, 25 pieces of gear. And every single thing is either built in or an app.

 

[X-Hack]

My phone can't double as a radio-controlled car. That was a pretty cool Radio Shack product back in the day. My Datsun 280ZX could get to end of my driveway in under 30 seconds.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

The Weird Al commercial didn't save them?

 

[Moderator1]

I truly thought they'd closed years and years ago.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Heaven needed a store that tried to aggressively sell you a new cell phone plan every time you bought a pair of AAA batteries.

 

[User 11148]

And wanted your phone number ... always. Literally ... always.

 

[apeman33]

Well, at least the owner of the local Radio Shack has stuff to fall back on. He also owns the U.S. Cellular franchise and the radio station.

 

[I Should Coco]

I better get there and buy up all their record player styluses.

 

[steveu]

Thank God they stopped advertising in papers for the most part. If they still had a circular I could see the memo saying "VERY IMPORTANT MEETING!" in my mailbox the day after the shutdown was announced.

RIP Radio Shack. Good run.

 

[Vombatus]

Did video kill the Radio Shack star?

 

[LongTimeListener]

They should have hired Lily away from AT&T.