RadioShack to close ~1,100 stores

[CountDeMoney]

RadioShack Corp. RSH (U.S.: NYSE)

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$ 2.02 USD -0.02 (0.98%)

CdMWatch says "Moderate Buy"

[fhdz]

RadioShack Corp. RSH (U.S.: NYSE)

after hours 7:59 PM ET
$ 2.02 USD -0.02 (0.98%)

CdMWatch says "Moderate Buy"

CdMM (Count de Mad Money)

[Caliga]

Serious question:  Does anyone still go to RadioShack for anything?  Do they have anything you can't get at Target, WalMart, etc.?

I needed a BNC connector at Christmas time.  And getting in and out of a Radio Shack is more convenient than all the bullshit that comes with dealing with a Target, WalMart, etc.

They were talking about this on Stern the other day and a couple of his staffers said that the reason they stopped going there is actually because it's become so inconvenient... that when you go to check out with your $3 connector they hold you hostage asking you your address, phone number, etc., and apparently do that every time you go there, as if they don't save your info in some database someplace.  No idea if it's true of course since I've not been in a RadioShack in forever.

[CountDeMoney]

They were talking about this on Stern the other day and a couple of his staffers said that the reason they stopped going there is actually because it's become so inconvenient... that when you go to check out with your $3 connector they hold you hostage asking you your address, phone number, etc., and apparently do that every time you go there, as if they don't save your info in some database someplace.  No idea if it's true of course since I've not been in a RadioShack in forever.

That's when you say "No thanks".  Fuck, Americans are polite to the point of paralysis.  It's OK to say No, people.

[Ed Anger]

RadioShack Corp. RSH (U.S.: NYSE)

after hours 7:59 PM ET
$ 2.02 USD -0.02 (0.98%)

CdMWatch says "Moderate Buy"

[Caliga]

Filed for bankruptcy today.  Everyone's shocked, I'm sure.

[DontSayBanana]

Filed for bankruptcy today.  Everyone's shocked, I'm sure.

Yep.  Been following this.  My first question tomorrow is going to be: is Sprint buying the employees or just the stores?

[garbon]

Oh no, where will people go to be sad?

[Caliga]

Oh no, where will people go to be sad?

[mongers]

Oh dear. 

And CdM is right, Americans are too polite to say no; but Brits fall into the same trap, iirc the few times I went in to get something I too ended up filling in information each time at the till. And indeed that probably acted as a disincentive to use them.

[CountDeMoney]

Oh no, where will people go to be sad?

Walmart, where everybody will eventually be in 100 years.

[Admiral Yi]

I went to Wally's today with my mom to buy yarn.

The lady at the register looked like she was going to keel over any second.

[Caliga]

I like how when I go to Walmart there are 20 registers, and only like two or three of them are open at any given time.

[mongers]

I went to Wally's today with my mom to buy yarn.

The lady at the register looked like she was going to keel over any second.

Yi spins a good yarn. 

[garbon]

Oh no, where will people go to be sad?

Walmart, where everybody will eventually be in 100 years.

I don't know. I mean I hate that Walmart but every time I visit I'm like:



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