Radio Shack now has about 5,000 stores in the U.S.. Half of them will close, and as many as 1,700 will be operated by Sprint. The future of Radio Shack was a cell phone store, it seems.

while Radio Shack still sells enough wires and connectors, fuses and bulbs, transistors and capacitors, soldering irons and screwdrivers to give Bunsen Honeydew a headache, it’s become a store ...