Radio Shack

[Marc Howard]

Use http://on.wsj.com/1IaZQhY

Marc

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Ian S. King <isking at uw.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Evan Koblentz <evan at snarc.net> wrote:
>
> > So ..... Radio Shack is (more or less) finally dead.
> >
> > There are still plenty of RS stores open for business. (Although I read
> > this morning that they're not getting new shipments, which makes them
> > essentially clearance stores.) Apparently the company is legally allowed
> to
> > close a maximum of 200 stores per year. Or something like that.
> >
> > Horn-tooting: the Wall Street Journal interviewed me about RS back at
> > World Maker Faire last fall. They published the story online today and
> > it'll be in print tomorrow.
> >
> > http://www.wsj.com/articles/strategic-confusion-put-
> > radioshack-at-the-mercy-of-lenders-1423164004
> >
> > Scroll aaaaaaaaaaaall the way down to the bottom. (LOL, yeah, I'm
> > important!)
> >
>
> Behind a paywall, y'all....
>
> --
> Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
> Ph.D. Candidate
> The Information School
> University of Washington
>
> An optimist sees a glass half full. A pessimist sees it half empty. An
> engineer sees it twice as large as it needs to be.
>