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Radio Shackis laying off workers and closing stores in an attempt to avoid bankruptcy. The company is trying to save $400 million. The electronics retailer is reeling from a $161 million loss during ...

This article is part of the Library Series: Rise and Fall of Radio Shack and Heathkit in Looking Back at Electronic History Those of us who grew up with electronics will miss going to a Radio Shack ...

When my Design News colleague Dan Carney visited one of the few remaining Radio Shack outlets n Woodstock, VA, several months ago, it was a stark reminder of how the retail landscape for electronics ...

The chain, known as the place you could find spare parts, hung on for years but now plans to sell up to 2,400 stores nationwide. RadioShack, the electronics chain that has hung on for years despite a ...

RadioShack is getting a marketing makeover. Starting August 6, the venerable electronics retailer will change its name to “The Shack,” a rebranding move designed to shed the last-century association ...

The exterior of a typical free-standing RadioShack store in Texarkana, Texas. (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) Back in February 2015, Radio Shack filed for bankruptcy. Many of us feared that we ...

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FORT WORTH, Texas – Troubled electronics retailer RadioShack has filed for bankruptcy for the second time in just over two years. The Fort Worth, Texas-based retailer filed its petition in bankruptcy ...

I wish I lived in the alternate reality where Radio Shack’s ‘Electronic Book’ was a runaway success, Amazon copied their design and every eBook reader was actually a paper book that required a tower ...