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There was a time when RadioShack mattered -- it was the easiest place to pick up those tech items you had to have, from odd-sized batteries to coaxial cables. Now you can get that stuff everywhere, and RadioShack is dying so fast that even Wall Street's analysts can't keep up with its decline.

Subway may promote itself as a fast food option that helps shrink the waistline, but the chain is now the largest kid on the restaurant block, surpassing McDonald's with more stores, coming in at 33,749 units compared to McDonald's 32,737. We've come to think of McDonald's as an iconic symbol of...

In the last two years, dozens of top retailers have liquidated merchandise, shuttered stores and filed for bankruptcy. But thanks to customer loyalty and management smarts, brands once given up for dead are now alive and kicking.

If the consumer electronics industry were an aging diva, it might be gazing into a mirror and declaring "I'm ready for my closeup." Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA and RadioShack are all vying for the media spotlight. And now there's news that RadioShack may be up for sale and Best Buy the rumored...

Nothing can be more detrimental to a retailer than arrogance. Once it gets too big and has blown away any competition, retailers often focus more on serving their own needs, customers be damned. Two best-in-class retailers have recently begun showing signs of self defeating arrogance in a way...

Falling prices for electronics kept taking a chunk out of Best Buy (BBY) profits, but company executives said more sales and traffic helped it achieve third-quarter earnings that easily beat analysts' estimates. And expecting more of the same for the rest of the year, they upped their guidance to...

I love it when a major consumer products category stands up and declares that fully half the population is an important part of the customer base. In the case of consumer electronics, every year or so we get an industry initiative that claims to focus on women, as though women just figured out that...

It's been a rough week for Best Buy. The Minneapolis-based chain has barely gotten rival Circuit City out of its hair - thanks to a Chapter 11 bankruptcy and subsequent liquidation -- when word comes that Wal-Mart is angling for a piece of the electronic giant's flat-screen pie. Now, Best Buy also...

Best Buy's decision to cut wages of thousands of its senior sales people, and eliminate up to 1,000 jobs, looks like a bad imitation of failed electronics retailer Circuit City.In a reorganization of the consumer electronics chain, Best Buy is cutting pay by 25% to 50% for 8,000 senior sales...

Best Buy has snapped up Circuit City's list of store cardholders and welcomed them to the fold. If you're on the list of cardholders who were invited to swap, Dan Ray, editor-in-chief of CreditCards.com, which wrote about the switcheroo, says take the new card and be grateful.If you didn't get the...