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"could" have went the route of Lowes, Home Depot, Northern Tool, or Harbor Freight and been successful. I dont know about some of you older guys, but when I was a kid - when I thought of Sears, I thought of lawn mowers, and tools, and all kinds of shit like that. Not that fucking retarded idea that they needed to morph into a hybrid of Tools, Clothes, and Furniture... like some retarded fucking Belk store - and look how theyre turning out. Sears around the country was just too heavily invested into Malls and it would have been insanely expensive to build new buildings, shipping routes and all that goes with that, to build out towards what a Lowes would be like with Lumber etc. But a Harbor Freight or Northern Tool ripoff before those two were even really a thing? That could have worked really well.

was great as a kid, but you could tell in the 90's that it was a dead end business model. Even as a kid in the 90's, out in the middle of the countryside, with dial up internet on something like a 36.6 or worse, a 28 or a 14 - I knew how to bootleg small porn videos and music. Foolish to think that there wasnt a shit load of kids out there doing the exact same thing. Technology was only going to get better and AOL handed out free internet to even homeless people. They had the market saturation and the capital to be what Netflix is today and missed that boat entirely. They didnt even try to capitalize on it after seeing how Netflix became small-time successful. Just a big company ran by dinosaurs that had no idea what the next step was. Funny enough, the same age group on that board is in fucking government right now.

I have no idea how they could have gotten better. I always liked going to one, but I knew we were too poor to really get anything I liked there. I mostly just went to the console game section, anyways. My mom would actively avoid letting me go there just because of how expensive shit was. After shopping for my little cousins here recently, Toy prices have only gotten worse. I personally would have maneuvered the store to go to a much smaller box size and tried to only let franchises open in high traffic areas. Something like Build-A-Bear maybe? Or partnered with Walmart and let the company become a division of Walmart, so anytime you walk into the Toy Section - you saw the logo. Still though, oof.. not much of an opportunity in my mind to begin with and Im surprised they got as big as they did.

They missed the writing on the wall, too, obviously. Yea, back in "the day" they had all the shit you would need to build a fucking bomb or a radio, your choice. But they hit market saturation and with it, their prices went up. Fast forward to the 90's and the internet fucked them. Doesnt take a rocket scientist to know that the same geek that can build a fucking radio will be enamored with and know how to use the internet and will order exactly what they fucking need for pennies on the dollar instead. Radio Shack, like Sears with tools, should have concentrated on a lot of what Best Buy has today. Yea, selling cell phones is.. "one" thing - but the whole store turned into cheap ass electronics that collected dust and some socially awkward dude trying to get you to sign up for a cell phone. They werent fucking cheap, either. Buying computer parts and having them be able to be delivered to your house or the business should have been one model. Imagine Radioshack having some kind of deal with Nvidia to where the top end card at the time would only be purchasable through them? Or fix your computer, or build your computer options. Like imagine if Radioshack had morphed into a Micro Center for example? They also had video games for computers and consoles alike - why the fuck didnt they ever capitalize on that? Look how many stores copied exactly what Game Stop was doing? Why did they never capitalize on that and capture that used market? .. Personally, I agree with everything people are saying. Radioshack was the biggest let down of those 4 because they just had so much potential.