RadioShack closings no surprise: Your Say

RadioShack announced Tuesday that it is closing up to 1,100 of its nearly 5,200 stores. Comments from Facebook are edited for clarity and grammar:

RadioShack kept scaling down until it had no niche products. Key to any business is understanding customers' needs and having something special. RadioShack has lost both.

— Dan Krohn

The first logical step would be to change the company's name from RadioShack. It screams obsolescence.

— Rich Barnes

Many companies with sinking profits have something in common. They are all brick-and-mortar stores. While they will always have a place, Amazon and other Internet businesses have diminished the need for them. A lot of people use physical stores like showrooms before they go shopping online.

— LaDon Aridge

RadioShacks do serve a purpose. Although its stores are not where you go to buy major items, very often they have that little, difficult, hard-to-find product that you need, such as a European-style adapter plug.

But I can see how it would be hard to maintain businesses on that kind of demand.

— Don Scotter

When I think of RadioShack, I remember a place I would get a portable radio (yep, the boom box) or other such now-irrelevant items. The recent Super Bowl ad may have been cute, but it backfired by highlighting how much of a dinosaur RadioShack has become. While the closing of any store location (obviously resulting in loss of jobs) is not good news, in this case, it is no surprise.

— Joanna Barry Heinz

In the 1960s, I went to RadioShack for components to build projects. Nowadays, it has nothing for me or my hobbies.

— Steve Alhart