Electronics retailer RadioShack is back in business.
US electronics brand RadioShack is aiming to make a comeback with an online shopping mall concept alongside other brands owned by its new parent company. Check out the RadioShack website.
Funnily enough I was at a RadioShack in Denver, Colorado twelve years ago today!
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| Digital camera quality was something else in 2009! |
RadioShack in the UK
I also found a RadioShack shop in Saint Annes on the Sea on the Fylde Coast in June 2017. Sadly it closed down in 2019.
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| RadioShack in Saint Annes on the Sea - it was the last RadioShack shop in the UK |
Luckily I did manage to shop in there a few times before it disappeared.
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| It was worth shopping there for the bag alone! |
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| Looking through my photo archive I also found this RadioShack sign from a shop in Whitstable, Kent. |
Tandy
My first job was at a Tandy franchise shop in my hometown of Abingdon, Oxfordshire where I sold a number of electronic products bearing the 'RadioShack', 'Genexxa' and 'Realistic' brand names.
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| This Tandy signage was on display in Hitchin in 2019 |
Tandy said goodbye to the UK high street in 2001 as the last of the shops were converted after acquisition by Carphone Warehouse.
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| Round the back of the shop in March 2016 |
Last year I discovered that the Tandy brand is still alive and kicking. While there are no longer any Tandy shops on the high street I actually bought some Tandy brand rechargeable batteries from the Tandy online shop.
I also found a new old stock Tandy EC-500 Multilingual electronic translator in a charity shop in Stockport last November. That was a bargain buy - it cost me more to buy new CR2032 batteries to go in it!
Interestingly the name Tandy comes from one of the founders of a leather goods company called Tandy Leather - a business that later became RadioShack.
