Even 10 years ago I remember walking through Fort Worth, TX looking at their headquarters and thinking. "This thing is dying". I am even surprised it lasted this long.

> It could have been Amazon.

That is a bit of a stretch. Maybe it could have been Newegg.

Yeah it made bad decisions but along with other brick and mortar electronics stores it was competing with online stores.

You can see them trying. I guess this:

http://dit.radioshack.com/ (Do It Together)

is their attempt to attract the new maker and tinkerer crowd. That is a cool idea but it is probably too late.