And you thought RadioShack was gone.
Gen Z may not be familiar with the RadioShack of their grandparents, but they’re getting to know its replacement. The 100-year-old retailer reintroduced itself on Twitter this week with a stream of often-profane tweets — some since deleted — filled with crude comments and drug references.
Variations of, “What in the world is going on?” peppered the comment threads, but a glance of the company’s Twitter profile partly held the answer: RadioShack is no longer the electronics store Americans ran to for generations, but rather an online cryptocurrency company that also happens to sell batteries. [WaPo]
It used to be a respectable entity, which, for those readers whose eyes just skip over respectable as meaningless, actually means trustworthy.
I still have my RadioShack multimeter that I must have bought thirty years ago.
