An Ohio RadioShack Facebook page says "We closed. F--- all of you"

[Michael_R_Smith]

@Daedalus

RadioShack’s core audience was the proto-Makers, the hobbyist electricians and computer programmers and (as the name suggests) radio enthusiasts. The store utterly failed to keep up with that type of customer (who also tend to be early adopters and have a reasonable amount of expertise before they go to a store in the first place - often more than the salesperson has).

Same here in Aus but they were pushed out of that market by Dick Smith. Before he sold out Dick’s salesmen all had amateur radio callsigns on their name badges. Dick was a maker himself and knew the market. But then he sold the chain and it withered over about 20 years. It was really down to that one person.