{"id":12199,"date":"2015-02-06T08:44:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T12:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=12199"},"modified":"2015-02-06T08:48:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T12:48:21","slug":"as-radioshack-closes-shop-look-for-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/as-radioshack-closes-shop-look-for-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"As RadioShack closes shop, look for deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1280px-RadioShack_Exterior_Modified.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12215\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1280px-RadioShack_Exterior_Modified.jpg\" alt=\"1280px-RadioShack_Exterior_Modified\" width=\"650\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1280px-RadioShack_Exterior_Modified.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1280px-RadioShack_Exterior_Modified-300x56.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve received a number of messages and comments regarding close-out and clearance deals at RadioShack retail stores. While this varies by market and the type of store (some are corporate, others are RS franchises), there&#8217;s no question: now is the time to check for deals.<\/p>\n<p>My good friend and <em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Mike Hansgen (K8RAT), discovered that his local RS in Ohio has marked everything 25% off. <em>Everything.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another reader recently commented that his RS store had a similar deal&#8211;25% off everything&#8211;but even increased the percentage of savings as you purchased more items.<\/p>\n<p>While RadioShack has few shortwave radios of note these days, they do have a lot of essential items for your home radio shack: cables, connectors, components, soldering equipment, batteries, scanners, DeoxIT and even Arduino products\u00a0to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>If you find that your local RS is liquidating stock, please comment with details.\u00a0Let&#8217;s compare notes!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>If you&#8217;d like to read more about the state of RadioShack, check out the following news articles sent in by readers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxal.com\/story\/28037856\/radioshack-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-to-sell-stores\" target=\"_blank\">WBRC news<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/radioshack-s-long-slow-downward-slide-nears-the-end\" target=\"_blank\">ARRL news<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2015\/02\/05\/radioshack-brand-bankruptcy-filing\/22949717\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Richard Cuff also shares this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdel.com\/blog-post.php?postid=4190\" target=\"_blank\">blog post\u00a0from Allen Loudell at WDEL<\/a>\u00a0and this brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2015-02-02\/inside-radioshack-s-slow-motion-collapse\" target=\"_blank\">overview of the collapse of RadioShack via Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve received a number of messages and comments regarding close-out and clearance deals at RadioShack retail stores. While this varies by market and the type of store (some are corporate, others are RS franchises), there&#8217;s no question: now is the time to check for deals. My good friend and SWLing Post reader, Mike Hansgen (K8RAT), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,714],"tags":[381,380,3597,2564],"class_list":["post-12199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-retailers","tag-radio-shack","tag-radioshack","tag-radioshack-closeouts","tag-radioshack-closures"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3aL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12306,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/radioshack-store-liquidation-sales\/","url_meta":{"origin":12199,"position":0},"title":"RadioShack liquidation sales","author":"Thomas","date":"February 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"One of my local RadioShack stores is closing\u00a0and liquidating all of the merchandise and store fixtures. I've visited the store twice and found that the best bargains come from the components cases where everything was marked at least 70% off. 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Though I haven't been inside a RadioShack in a couple of months, I've never noticed this portable on their shelves. 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