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The guys specialize in buying bankrupt companies with middle-class name recognition and then goes for a brand-recognition blitz. Apparently they’ve successfully spun off some of them back into standalone companies.

In all fairness most the companies on the list had a lot of meat on the bone, but they had utterly incompetent executive. RadioShack’s final owners killed the one smart thing they had: dedicated manufacturing contracts.

Hopefully the new owners refocus on their core businesses that made those companies successful. They’ve done it before. Some buzz was going around that in the next couple years they will be opening pilot brick & mortar RadioShack’s again

I worked there, it was my first real job, I was there right up to the end.
I also heavily regret not having the space or money to buy the parts drawers.

Then again I took them apart, reorganized and labeled literal hundreds of tiny parts tins so many times... the only emotion they spark is cold indifference now

I found these in an extremely old picture viewer in my dad’s “kid stuff”. I took them out and put them on the shelf because they look so retro, and I’ve never seen these old steel-clad batteries.

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