does anyone remember being young around christmas time looking at the sears catalog, i like sears but their prices are way too high, i would hate to see them disappear but if they can't be more competitive then they will just have to go under and i can't feel so bad if they refuse to fix their prices

and just exactly what am i going to do when i need something i can only get at sears or radio shack ???

crap ...

Home Depot has up graded thier tools with a life time warrenty . They are now sellig tools as good as Craftsman. This puts them in a good position when sears goes under.

I don't like to see any store close or any company go down.  The United States is built on success not failure.. Once the cancer starts it will take us all down.. 

The whole world is finished and will not servive much longer because of coroption, money, money, every one wants to rip each other off, greed is a terible thing, but you cant take your money with you. every one must die and all thease corupt people will pay for all their deeds good or bad.

MSN is increasingly negative. Not a good source for empirical research.

You are wrong about $ALU.

To reduce HP to consumer PCs and declare PCs dead (and with that HP) has been fashionable among financial writes for years now. Business software, servers and databases won't run on Apple or Android or tablets or smartphones anytime soon. There are less PCs that sell because they've become so good that consumers and businesss don't replace them as often anymore. PCs don't see the dramatic innovations of the past anymore and hence they don't become outdated as fast anymore. Tablets and smart phones are a nice add-on for surfing the web on the road or from your couch. They are unlikely though to replace the PC as the main working device of those that have to work all day on a computer. Sure the PC & Laptop business has gotten smaller but to suggest that they'll go away and are replaced by tablets is just ridiculous. HP has a reputaion for solid quality and is still the first stop of any IT manager who's out shopping for a server. Their business laptops are by far the best on the market. I think they're far from dead.

$938M should be plenty for RadioShack to reinvent itself as a different business with a different name as its present business model is outmoded and thus a goner. Warren Buffett gets over 100 proposals a day to buy ongoing businesses. RadioShack should talk to Warren.

Get your facts straight.  Alcatel is ahead of the game when it comes to R&D, everyone else has to play catch-up.  They simply need restructuring.