[BC] Re: Radio Shack Hangs in There!

[DHultsman5@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/30/2007 12:41:24 PM Central Daylight Time, 
burban at kut.org writes:


> Don't forget about Incredible Universe.  Remember them?  That was
> Tandy/Radio Shack's version of Circuit City/Best Buy/Etc.  That venture  
fell
> flat on 
> its face.  I remember a store in Houston that opened up in  1999.  It stayed
> open for six months.  One day, people who wanted to  shop there found the
> doors 
> locked and "out of business" signs all over the  place.
>  
> My understanding is Fry's Electronics bought up some of the old IU  stores.
>  
>  
> Paul Gray.
>  
>  

**********************Correct Frye's bough the Dallas and the Atlanta stores. 
 They used the Tandy-Radio Shack computer terminals for years.
 
Dave



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