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Radio Shack will close 1,100 stores around the country after reporting a 20% drop in sales in the fourth quarter of 2013. No word yet on when the closures will happen, or exactly which stores will shutter—the company is in talks with landlords. But we're guessing at least a few of San Francisco's 16 (!) locations will be included. [SF Biz Times]