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Schuylkill's last RadioShack to close Monday

The RadioShack retail store inside Schuylkill Mall, one of the mall's original tenants, will close its doors on Monday after 36 years.

On Wednesday, a store employee working on liquidation of inventory confirmed the closing."Monday will be our last," said the worker, who also acknowledged the store to be the final RadioShack location in Schuylkill County.The 2,609-square-foot RadioShack store at the mall has been there since 1980, when the mall opened.Additional information was not provided.Store personnel marked down all remaining merchandise to 70 to 90 percent off tagged price.The Sprint section of the store also will close, with final sales to take place Saturday.The closing of the Frackville RadioShack location comes just 14 months after the chain closed the Tamaqua store, located in HT Commons Shopping Plaza, Hometown, after 37 years in the community.In March 2014, the company - with 4,000 stores - announced it would close about 1,100 locations, a plan that was later limited to just 200 stores.The move to close stores reflected troubling times on Wall Street for RadioShack.Shares had tumbled at least 10 percent at midyear and the company reported a quarterly loss.Corporate stock reportedly tumbled more than 45 percent at one point in 2014.At the time, Joseph C. Magnacca, chief executive officer, blamed an industrywide downturn in consumer electronics and weak demand for the slate of mobile phones.With no RadioShack store in the county, the nearest RadioShack for eastern Schuylkill County customers is 14 miles away at 457 Susquehanna Boulevard in Hazle Township, Luzerne County.