(From the latest ARRL Letter)   
      
   RadioShack "Express Stores" to Open in HobbyTown USA Locations   
      
   According to a July 13 article in the New York Post, RadioShack is planning to    
   open "express stores" within HobbyTown USA locations. The nearly century-old,    
   twice-bankrupt retailer has signed a deal with HobbyTown USA to put a mini    
   RadioShack outlet in some 50 HobbyTown USA stores across the country that    
   would sell items that might appeal to radio amateurs and experimenters. Those    
   locations will be identified with RadioShack signage. HobbyTown markets    
   remote-controlled cars and boats as well as drones and other hobby-related    
   merchandise.   
      
   RadioShack shuttered all of its company-owned retail outlets. Its last    
   unsuccessful effort to bail itself out of debt involved a deal with cellular    
   provider Sprint. HobbyTown USA has 140 retail outlets, and, according to the    
   Post article, RadioShack eventually could carve out a presence -- on the order    
   of 500 square feet -- in all of them. Stores in HobbyTown USA's headquarters    
   town of Lincoln, Nebraska, as well as in Parker, Colorado, and Mooresville,    
   North Carolina, will be among the first to host RadioShack express    
   concessions.   
      
   "HobbyTown is purchasing the RadioShack merchandise and offering it to its    
   hobbyist customers who need the tools, wires, and other accessories that    
   RadioShack makes," the Post article said.   
      
   The article quoted Steve Moroneso, chief executive of General Wireless    
   Operations Inc. -- an affiliate of hedge fund Standard General, which acquired    
   RadioShack in 2015 -- as saying that RadioShack's strategy now is not to own    
   brick-and-mortar stores. RadioShack came out of bankruptcy in January with 400    
   dealers, an online retail presence, and a distribution center. General    
   Wireless acquired the 1,743 retail outlets that survived RadioShack's 2015    
   bankruptcy.   
      
   Moroneso also told the Post that there is "plenty of interest from dealers who    
   want to open a full-line Radio Shack."   
      
   Original article:   
   http://www.arrl.org/news/radioshack-express-stores-to-open-in-hobbytown-usa-loc   
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   Later,   
   Sean   
      
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