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Originally Posted by murraypaul
...but how do they gain by having a thousand little strip mall outlets?
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Those Radio Shack sites are generally *extremely* well-located.
Plus, you're forgetting Amazon doesn't like paying others recurring fees for anything they can do themselves. Like the Mobipocket, Ivona, Kiva Systems purchases... Amazon prefers to buy the operations and let them pay for themselves over time so they can get the resource (DRM, TTS, warehouse robots) essentially for free.
If Bezos were to decide that using Amazon's distribution system to feed the RS stores could turn the chain around *and* let him site lockers and kiosks for free, he'd do the deal in an instant. But that's a really big "if". Radio shack is a very sick company.
He might prefer to let it go chapter 7 liquidation and pick up the leases enmasse to turn them into media stores.
It's not a crazy idea. Just unlikely.