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It also became a regular stop for incidental items like cables or antennae to hook up a TV set, batteries for toys or transistor radios or early laptop computers like the TRS-80.īut like so many other retailers, it has become a victim of the Internet. It was a regular stop for consumers for all nature of electronics - from stereos to walkie talkies. In its heyday, Fort Worth-based RadioShack had 7,300 stores and could claim that it had a store within three miles of 95% of all American households. Now, the remaining company-owned stores will include only seven states, with the greatest concentration in New York, Pennsylvania and RadioShack's native Texas. The meltdown of what was once one of America's best-known chains represents a strange turn of events considering it was only in March that parent General Wireless Operations filed for bankruptcy protection and proposed closing only about 200 RadioShack stores.īut at the time, General Wireless left the door open to closing more - though few observers expected the numbers to top 1,000 soon. Also remaining are about 500 dealer-owned stores. The chain held a giant liquidation sale over the weekend 'before we close the stores for good,' it said in a statement.

Watch Video: Radio Shack using Twitter to highlight its final days as a brandĮlectronics retailer RadioShack has closed more than 1,000 stores since Memorial Day weekend and has become a virtual goner, saying it will only have 70 company-owned stores remaining by Thursday.