For years, RadioShack had been the “go to” place for hobbyists, as well as the store where one could find everything from speaker cables to electrical adapters, gizmos to gadgets. It appealed as much to people who wanted to build a computer as use one. In the 1990s it moved away from this market, leaving those hobbyists behind. Looking back, this can be seen as the beginning of its end.
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Why RadioShack Fell Flat
Posted by: Peter Suciu February 11, 2015 05:00 AMFor years, RadioShack had been the “go to” place for hobbyists, as well as the store where one could find everything from speaker cables to electrical adapters, gizmos to gadgets. It appealed as much to people who wanted to build a computer as use one. In the 1990s it moved away from this market, leaving those hobbyists behind. Looking back, this can be seen as the beginning of its end.