[SFDXA] RadioShack “Express Stores” to Open in HobbyTown USA Locations

[Pete Rimmel N8PR]

BUT the closest one could be in Melbourne, FL

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From: Bill M
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Subject: [SFDXA] RadioShack “Express Stores” to Open in HobbyTown USA 
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> RadioShack “Express Stores” to Open in HobbyTown USA Locations
> 07/18/2018
> According to a July 13 article in the New York Post, RadioShack is 
> planning to open “express stores” within HobbyTown USA locations. The 
> nearly century-old, twice-bankrupt retailer has signed a deal with 
> HobbyTown USA to put a mini-RadioShack outlet in some 50 HobbyTown USA 
> stores across the country that would sell items that might appeal to radio 
> amateurs and experimenters. Those locations will be identified with 
> RadioShack signage. HobbyTown markets remote-controlled cars and boats as 
> well as drones and other hobby-related merchandise.
>
> RadioShack shuttered all of its company-owned retail outlets. Its last 
> unsuccessful effort to bail itself out of debt involved a deal with 
> cellular provider Sprint. HobbyTown USA has 140 retail outlets, and, 
> according to the Post article, RadioShack eventually could carve out a 
> presence — on the order of 500 square feet — in all of them. HobbyTown USA 
> stores in Parker, Colorado, and Mooresville, North Carolina, will be among 
> the first to host RadioShack express stores.
>
> “HobbyTown is purchasing the RadioShack merchandise and offering it to its 
> hobbyist customers who need the tools, wires, and other accessories that 
> RadioShack makes,” the Post article said.
>
> The article quoted Steve Moroneso, chief executive of General Wireless 
> Operations Inc. — an affiliate of hedge fund Standard General which 
> acquired RadioShack in 2015 — as saying that RadioShack’s strategy now is 
> not to own brick-and-mortar stores. RadioShack came out of bankruptcy in 
> January with 400 dealers, an online retail presence, and a distribution 
> center. General Wireless acquired the 1,743 retail outlets that survived 
> RadioShack’s 2015 bankruptcy.
>
> Moroneso also told the Post that there is “plenty of interest from dealers 
> who want to open a full-line Radio Shack.”
>
> Dating its founding to 1921, RadioShack once offered a broad array of 
> name-brand Amateur Radio equipment — even beams and towers — along with 
> home entertainment gear and discrete components, including transistors, 
> resistors, and capacitors. Its iconic 1960s-era catalog ran to more than 
> 300 pages. In later years, it sold a fairly popular 2-meter handheld 
> transceiver for a time, as well as Citizens Band equipment, 10-meter 
> single banders, and shortwave receivers. RadioShack’s retail website 
> remains open, marketing many of the same items once available in its 
> retail outlets.
>
> http://www.arrl.org/news/view/radioshack-express-stores-to-open-in-hobbytown-usa-locations?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
>
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