But where am I going to go now when I need one diode cell phone at 3pm on a Sunday?
That’s part of the problem. Most local RadioShacks I’ve been to in the last few years had morphed into crappy cell phone stores with an incomplete assortment of other items.
And really, even if phones were a good profit item for RadioShack, why would most people in need of a new phone not just go to the carrier store?
(Also, IIRC, those little components had pretty good profit margins too…)
