{"id":8255,"date":"2015-01-15T20:54:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T00:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=8255"},"modified":"2023-03-26T09:18:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T13:18:56","slug":"well-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2015\/01\/well-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, crap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Radio Shack Store, Courtesy of Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Radio Shack (AKA, RadioShack, The Shack, Tandy Corporation, Realistic, Optimus, etc) appears to be filing for Bankruptcy if the Wall Street Journal and Reuters<\/a> is to be believed.  I see the words “private equity firm” in the article, that does not bode well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radio Shack of late has become a glorified cell phone store.\u00a0 It used to be one could get some emergency repair parts, an FM antenna, or a CB radio as the need arose.\u00a0 As a young lad, it was fun to poke around and look at the various radio kits and other assorted fun things.\u00a0 My first shortwave radio was a kit from Radio Shack; assembly finished just in time to hear the Vatican Radio’s<\/a> announcement that Pope Paul IV<\/a> had died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happened to Radio Shack is fairly typical; what was once a niche market for hobbyists and experimenters tried to go mainstream and lost their core customers.\u00a0 There are still plenty of electronics hobbyists out there, look at the Amateur Radio community as an example.\u00a0 Yet, that market was abandoned for the more lucrative general consumer electronics market.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Radio Shack never produced high-quality stuff, so their reputation in the consumer electronics market was not that great.\u00a0 Thus, not being known for anything, they slowly slipped into irrelevance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Radio Shack (AKA, RadioShack, The Shack, Tandy Corporation, Realistic, Optimus, etc) appears to be filing for Bankruptcy if the Wall Street Journal and Reuters is to be believed.  I see the words “private equity firm” in the article, that does not bode well. Radio Shack of late has become a glorified cell phone store.\u00a0 It … Continue reading Well, crap<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[291],"class_list":["post-8255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-retail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8255"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11224,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255\/revisions\/11224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}