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Unless you happened to walk or drive past a RadioShack this weekend, you may not have realized that Memorial Day weekend 2017 marked the end of almost all of the chain’s stores. It once had mor...

https://consumerist.com//2017/05/30/radioshack-closed-all-but-70-stores-this-weekend/

Since the beginning of RadioShack’s bankruptcy proceedings back in February, the lower-ranking or “junior” lenders in the company’s debt pile have claimed that the entire proceedings were...

https://consumerist.com//2015/06/26/former-radioshacks-lawyers-and-lenders-agree-to-keep-talking-about-settling/

Moderately perceptive RadioShack employees could look around their stores and follow the news in recent years and tell that something was about to happen to their employer. Yet RadioShack employe...

https://consumerist.com//2015/04/29/radioshack-employees-had-no-idea-whether-their-stores-were-doomed/

All of RadioShack’s stores have been either shut down or sold and have now re-opened to sell only Sprint phones alongside batteries. Yet the owner of those stores, Standard General, didn’t ne...

https://consumerist.com//2015/04/17/is-the-radioshack-brand-name-even-worth-anything/

When the venerable electronics retailer RadioShack declared bankruptcy earlier this year and prepared to sell off its assets and its business, they quietly announced one item that was legally pro...

https://consumerist.com//2015/04/14/radioshack-consumer-data-might-be-back-up-for-auction/

What is the purpose of auctioning off the assets of a company that has declared bankruptcy? Is it to keep some form of the company in business to keep workers employed, or is it to raise as much ...

https://consumerist.com//2015/03/26/radioshacks-future-comes-down-to-saving-jobs-or-raising-cash-for-lenders/

Today is day 2 of the RadioShack bankruptcy auction. While selling the assets of a company that was once worth billions of dollars that still has thousands of stores isn’t a simple endeavor, th...

https://consumerist.com//2015/03/24/radioshack-bankruptcy-auction-continues-unsecured-creditors-may-not-get-much/

You probably don’t normally associate the phrases “valuable art collection” and “RadioShack,” but the headquarters building that opened just ten years ago has some lovely artwork, value...

https://consumerist.com//2015/03/23/radioshack-buyer-plans-to-donate-art-and-company-archives/

The auction for the smoldering remains of RadioShack is happening right now at the offices of the company’s attorneys in New York City, and something caught our attention while we wait for news...

https://consumerist.com//2015/03/23/att-asked-radioshack-to-destroy-customer-and-proprietary-information-before-auction/