{"id":564,"date":"2006-04-28T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=564"},"modified":"2006-04-28T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T21:24:09","slug":"radioshack-is-not-feeling-cingulars-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"RadioShack is not feeling Cingular&#8217;s love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After facing a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=541\">corporate scandal <\/a>and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=539\">losses from its dropping of Verizon Wireless in favor of new partner Cingular<\/a>, RadioShack is facing even <em>WORSE<\/em> financial results than ever before.\u00a0 The apparently-forlorn purveyor of cheaply-made, heavily-marked-up electronics has seen it profits <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/04\/21\/news\/companies\/radio_shack.reut\/\">dwindle by as much as 85 percent, and executives aren&#8217;t happy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;While we knew first quarter would be weak, the results are worse than we anticipated,&#8221; said acting Chief Executive Claire Babrowski. &#8220;We clearly have a lot more work to do to get this company back to levels of profitability which we all expect.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When are these guys going to admit the Cingualr move was a huge mistake?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After facing a corporate scandal and losses from its dropping of Verizon Wireless in favor of new partner Cingular, RadioShack is facing even WORSE financial results than ever before.\u00a0 The apparently-forlorn purveyor of cheaply-made, heavily-marked-up electronics has seen it profits dwindle by as much as 85 percent, and executives aren&#8217;t happy: &#8220;While we knew first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}