{"id":284,"date":"2015-02-06T10:07:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T18:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=284"},"modified":"2015-02-06T10:07:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T18:07:13","slug":"the-shack-is-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"The Shack is Closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragan.com\/Uploads\/Public\/Images\/Worst_Rebranding_Disasters_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"217\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Crap. \u00a0 Where am I going to refer the customers that come in for a weird size battery for their 20 year old alarm clock now? \u00a0 Not that you couldn&#8217;t see this coming. For a while. \u00a0 \u00a0In recent years they have been known as one of the worst places to work and tried everything to survive (including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2009\/08\/radioshack-rebrands-as-the-shack\/\" target=\"_blank\">rebranding as &#8220;The Shack.<\/a>&#8220;) \u00a0Ultimately, they are another in a long list of brick and mortars who have fallen as a result of online sales.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/02\/05\/news\/companies\/radioshack-bankruptcy\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Radioshack declares bankruptcy &#8211; Feb. 5, 2015.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crap. \u00a0 Where am I going to refer the customers that come in for a weird size battery for their 20 year old alarm clock now? \u00a0 Not that you couldn&#8217;t see this coming. For a while. \u00a0 \u00a0In recent years they have been known as one of the worst places to work and tried <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=284\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-companies"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}