The RadioShack stores due to close by March 31. 5644 Geary (L) and 3200 Geary
RadioShack announced last week that they will close about half of its stores nationwide in the next six weeks due to a bankruptcy filing.
RadioShack released the full list of 1,784 store closings which includes two locations on Geary Boulevard – 3200 Geary near Spruce and 5644 Geary near 21st Avenue. A total of eight stores will close in San Francisco.
But don’t despair – the RadioShack at 701 Clement Street will remain open. So the next time you need to string extra coax cable or phone line (yes, some people still have a landline!) around your home, or want to stock up on cheap batteries, you’re covered.
Of the RadioShack stores that remain open, about 1/3 of the floor space will be given over to cell phone provider Sprint. RadioShack has not said how many employees will be affected by the closing. As of its bankruptcy filing, the company has about 21,000 employees nationwide.
If you’re looking for some good deals on electronic accessories, stop by these two RadioShack locations before they close for good on March 31. According to CNN, “many of the stores have already had their hours and inventories severely reduced, and merely a skeleton staff is left to sell off items at deep discounts.”
Sarah B.
Well there may yet be room for some tentative despair even re. the 701 Clement location as it’s not clear how long Sprint will find selling batteries and coax cable worth the effort – sad if the only future option for stuff like that is amazon.
More vacant storefronts. Remember when Baskin-Robbins was at 22nd & Geary? Mar will have none of that.
@4thGenRichmond: Now you be nice, Mar is doing everything he can to fight the scourge of whatever Happy Meals-equivalent-level-of-importance-nonsense he’s come up with lately.
who goes to radio shack anyways!?!
its very 80s. thats where i got my
cassette answering machine!
@ Sam Foster: I’ll bet Mar is plotting how to get rid of Batkid….
Well someone wasn’t be a jerk to me by doing their best impression of Comicbook guy as a Radioshack manager, it’d be a snot-nosed kid who openly did not give a crud about their job.
For me, that was the major reason I stopped shopping at those places unless totally desperate (so once in the last ten years).
I make a trip once every month or so to Electronics Plus (http://www.electronicplus.com/) up on 4th Street in San Rafael. A real electronics shop with people that know what the heck they are doing.
BTW is anyone here remembers their SF store…when I asked the owner some years ago why he closed the SF store 25 years ago, his answer was “greedy landlords”.
I understand people’s frustration with the help at Radio Shack but if you just need, e.g. a 1/4 ” jack… anyway, i’ll miss the availability of the kind of stuff in the hood.
JD, was Electronics Plus the electronics store that used to be on Market ? I remember there was a good store there but forgot the name.
I hope we’ll get something good in the empty storefronts and that the Radio Shack employees can find new work.
I’ve been in the Clement St. store a few times when I’ve needed stuff in an emergency, but I can’t say the store has been very relevant over the past few years/decade.
A special thanks to JD for mentioning Electronics Plus. I haven’t lived here that long and wasn’t aware that such a store existed in the Bay Area. Their web site looks interesting for those of us who have used a soldering iron. I’ve got to go there and check it out.
There were two very large electronics stores on or near mid-market many years ago. The one in San Rafael was one of them.
Zacks on Market
Thanks for the info. all. Zacks is actually the one I was thinking of but couldn’t remember the name of; that was a great store (though I’m sure Electronics Plus was too; their website does look good).