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> RadioShack is a company of massive real estate, and is peddling a business model that is completely unviable in 2014.

We have good evidence to suggest that the RS business model is indeed viable in 2014: it's Maplin https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8328621 (followup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8329953 ).

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Maplin has been doing ecommerce for over twenty years - anyone else remember CASHTel?

Yep. My Maplin customer number is only 4 digits - which always throws the staff if they use it/

Mind you, Maplin has turned into a UK Tandy and is really no longer a sane source for electronic components. Wouldn't be surprised if they eventually went down the pan or shrunk their stores base.

Remember the orange/green/white collectable discount vouchers you'd receive with your orders.

Yes, I thought they were turning into a strange PC-World / odd electrical bits shop too.

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