radio shack changed to the source in 2005.
when did radio shack change to the source?
2005
following the creation of intertan, tandy electronics operated 873 stores in canada, and owned the rights to the radioshack name. in 2004, circuit city, a competitor of radio shack purchased intertan, which held the rights to use the radioshack name in canada until 2010. radio shack corp., which operated radio shack stores in the u.s., sued intertan in an attempt to end the contract for the company name early. on march 24, 2005, a u.s. district court judge ruled in favour of radioshack, requiring intertan stop using the brand name in products, packaging or advertising by june 30, 2005. the canadian stores were rebranded under the name the source by circuit city. radio shack briefly re-entered the canadian market, but eventually closed all stores to refocus attention on its core u.s. business.
radioshack
radio shack stores sold trs-80 computers with other products, while radio shack computer centers only sold computers. non-company-owned franchises sold radio shack products, including computers, and non-radio shack items. value-added resellers distributed relabeled versions of tandy computers. despite selling computers through old-fashioned, department-store-like sunday-newspaper inserts that emphasized price instead of technology and functionality, by 1980 "infoworld" described radio shack as "the dominant supplier of small computers". and in 1981 "one of the best marketers in the computer industry". adam osborne that year described tandy as "one of the great enigmas of the industry." he wrote of his amazement that a company "with so few roots in microcomputing" was the "number-one microcomputer manufacturer" while "selling computers out of radio shack stores, no less?" a "byte" reviewer admitted that he at first dismissed the model 100 "as a toy" because he saw it in a store next to a radio-controlled car, stating that "it's too bad that radio shack is associated with toys and cb radio" when the computer "shows tremendous planning and foresight."
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