And since Aaron noted that that is Bloomberg's, I'll say that the picture dates to 2007 at the latest. That's that old of a RadioShack picture. Current stores, if you can find them, don't look like that.

Profit-wise mobile wireless initially drove the balance sheet hard. Through contraction in the market of of margins as well as simple saturation, it killed the company that depended upon it. The parts and batteries were reliable profit makers but not nearly as large as mobile wireless.

Hopefully the next people to get the name partner with DigiKey and/or Mouser along the Raspberry Pi Foundation to do something electronics-based again.