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The company that arose from RadioShack's 2015 bankruptcy saga could soon itself be filing for bankruptcy.
General Wireless is reportedly on the brink of seeking protection from creditors and entering the liquidation process. The biz could not be reached for comment. The formal paperwork for the bankruptcy could be posted within a matter of days, it is claimed.
A liquidation of General Wireless will effectively mark the end of RadioShack, which opened its first store in 1921 and became a mainstay of electronics hobbyists through the rise of the home computing era.
The retailer was nearly liquidated outright in 2015 after years of struggling to keep up with competition from online stores and a financial plummet that saw the value of its stock fall so sharply it was removed from the New York Stock Exchange.
Micro Center remains, but in the era of Adafruit, Seeed Studio, Sparkfun, and others are big-box retailers still relevant?
(Score: 2) by Kromagv0 on Tuesday March 07 2017, @08:07PM
For digital cameras I use a shibboleth to avoid the dumb clerks. Just ask the sales clerk to show you non diffraction limited ones at the pixel density you want. Thankfully where I live we have a pretty good camera shop (it isn't B&H but then I don't have to wait a week for stuff to show up in the mail after paying for shipping) and the clerks there can inform someone like my wife on digital cameras to her level of comfort, yet I can go in and have a discussion about a possible replacement for my Pentax Spotmatic F and assorted good lenses that is very technical. Unfortunately to match the quality of what I have now I would end up spending $15,000 to $20,000, $2000 of that would be for a chassis and the rest would be for lenses and other non compatible accessories, and for that kind of money I can pay for a lot of film and developing.
The nice thing about that store is that they can point you to other sources if they don't carry it or can't do it. I found a guy nearby who specializes in repairing Spotmatics through them the last time I was in so I can bring my camera to him to give it a good cleaning and servicing. They also do keep a selection of "vintage" cameras and accessories and when you find that 17mm f/4 ultra wide angle lens at a reasonable price that you have been looking for you end up spending $325.
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