RadioShack to close ~1,100 stores

[Caliga]

  I probably have some canned chicken.  Would you have me used canned chicken to make a quesadilla though?

I have a block of manchego but I don't think I have any shredded cheddar or jack.

No tortillas right now, no.

[garbon]

I probably have some canned chicken.  Would you have me used canned chicken to make a quesadilla though?

I have a block of manchego but I don't think I have any shredded cheddar or jack.

No tortillas right now, no.

All of this is very confusing. I don't even know why a person would own canned chicken nor why a person wouldn't have cheddar on hand. I could almost understand the lack of tortillas (understandable if one is in a heathenish country ) as I'm currently out but then I've instead ordered in food with tortillas the last few days.

[Eddie Teach]

Tortillas get kind of stiff if you have them sitting around too long.

[dps]

Tortillas get kind of stiff if you have them sitting around too long.

I'm not a tortilla, but at my age I get kind of stiff if I sit around too long.

[Caliga]

"We lost $400 million last year. If we close down all our stores but the best performing one, we will almost inevitably be successful in reducing the magnitude of our losses."

I'm curious where in America the best-performing RadioShack is.  It must be in some retirement community, since only dumb old people seem to like RadioShack anymore.

[CountDeMoney]

"We lost $400 million last year. If we close down all our stores but the best performing one, we will almost inevitably be successful in reducing the magnitude of our losses."

That's the kind of math that works in that world.

IBM redefines failure as 'success,' gives underachieving CEO huge raise
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-ibm-redefines-20150202-column.html

HP gave CEO Meg Whitman a $1.9M raise in 2014 as revenues fell and employees' heads rolled
http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/02/hp-gave-ceo-meg-whitman-a-1-9m-raise-in-2014-as-revenues-fell-and-employees-heads-rolled/

[Tonitrus]

Obviously CdM is opposed to equalizing pay for women. 

[CountDeMoney]

Isn't it refreshing to see that they can be just as morally bankrupt as men?

[derspiess]

Isn't it refreshing to see that they can be just as morally bankrupt as men?

Like you didn't already have that figured out from your high school years.

[CountDeMoney]

Isn't it refreshing to see that they can be just as morally bankrupt as men?

Like you didn't already have that figured out from your high school years.

High school?  Try 4th grade. 

[DontSayBanana]

I'm curious where in America the best-performing RadioShack is.  It must be in some retirement community, since only dumb old people seem to like RadioShack anymore.

Caveat: I really only get direct info on the eastern region, but..

There probably isn't a clear and distinct best performer in the company.  We tend to jockey for position, at least at the district level, and there can be some wild fluctuations between the top three one day and the top three the next.  The most consist performers seem to sit around the 75th-80th percentile range, and they're usually city stores sitting near state borders where people might go to engage in a little mild sales tax fraud on consumer electronics, (especially Jersey City in my district).

Another bit of typical retail wisdom is that stores nearer the corporate headquarters tend to be better-performing due to extra discipline and/or bones being thrown by corporate, but I doubt that's the case with RadioShack, since our headquarters is in Fort Worth, which is pretty deep into Fry's territory

[Barrister]

I loathe Yum brands.

As well you should.  It was helmed for years by the stupid fucker that created Crystal Pepsi.  HEY DOUCHEBAG THAT RAN CRYSTAL PEPSI INTO THE GROUND, WHY NOT COME OVER HERE AND RUN ALL THESE FAST FOOD CHAINS INTO THE GROUND TOO NOW

I liked Crystal Pepsi.

[Ed Anger]

I loathe Yum brands.

As well you should.  It was helmed for years by the stupid fucker that created Crystal Pepsi.  HEY DOUCHEBAG THAT RAN CRYSTAL PEPSI INTO THE GROUND, WHY NOT COME OVER HERE AND RUN ALL THESE FAST FOOD CHAINS INTO THE GROUND TOO NOW

I liked Crystal Pepsi.

Weirdo

[DontSayBanana]

I liked Crystal Pepsi.

Mmm, bleach.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Another bit of typical retail wisdom is that stores nearer the corporate headquarters tend to be better-performing due to extra discipline and/or bones being thrown by corporate, but I doubt that's the case with RadioShack, since our headquarters is in Fort Worth, which is pretty deep into Fry's territory

Every time I have passed a RadioShack in the past several years it has been dead in there.  I have been inside once in the past decade, and that was only because I needed earbud cushions of a particular type and they were the only brick-and-mortar store that had them.