RadioShack Gone Wild 😳😂

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15. Well, people still purchase things from Best Buy. So that can't be the only factor.

One major problem was that RS required a profit margin significantly higher that just about any other retailer in their market. That was one of the things that doomed them, along with a company "culture" that was decades ahead when it came to the psychopathic nature of big business we see today. They treated all their employees, even management, like shit. So there's that.

What sucks about Amazon is that it's a lot harder for kids to learn technology today. RS and others (Heathkit, etc.) made it a much easier learning curve. But that never made huge money for RS, so it's not surprising that as big business got harder and meaner in the late '80s, all that gradually went away.