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RadioShack Stores to Live On as.... Amazon?

posted by janrinok on Wednesday February 04 2015, @01:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the and-it-grew-and-grew dept.

tonyPick writes:

According to Bloomberg Amazon is in talks to buy some of RadioShack's stores:

Amazon has considered using the RadioShack stores as showcases for the Seattle-based company’s hardware, as well as potential pickup and drop-off centers for online customers, said one of the people, who asked not to be named because the deliberations are private.

RadioShack is on the verge of declaring bankruptcy, and according to other reports, it has also been in talks with wireless carrier Sprint about selling some of its stores. The deal with Amazon may not happen, but nonetheless, it shows where Amazon is headed.

To head off competition from Wal-Mart—one of the few retailers that could pose a legitimate threat to Amazon—and to expand its operation, the company has adopted a new hybrid business model, combining e-commerce with offline services.

Originally spotted at Wired, and also linked at HackerNews.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday February 04 2015, @04:32PM

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday February 04 2015, @04:32PM (#141183)

    which are more successful

    I think thats a coastie thing because we got a foot of snow on Sunday and it'll be -10 tonight. Given the choice of an outdoor strip mall or walmart, I'd shop online, but if I had to go to one or the other tonight, it would have to be the walmart (or the still enclosed mall, if its something they still sell).

    If it works for the coasties thats great for them, but I'm not seeing it happening nationwide.

    I have a suggestion which is dorms / condos. You got plenty of parking so tear half of it up and put in parkland. Generally located on major roads, convenient to everything else still open, plenty of utility service (water, electricity already in place).

    Something I've seen repeatedly locally is an explosion of gyms in strip malls.

    I bet you could make a heck of a convention center out of a dead enclosed mall. Plenty of parking, already on mass transit lines, bathrooms, utilities, roadways are usually tolerable...

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by takyon on Wednesday February 04 2015, @05:53PM

    by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Wednesday February 04 2015, @05:53PM (#141226) Journal

    http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2005/04/the_mall_goes_undercover.html [slate.com]

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