The Sprint RadioShack experiment is over and in Colorado, at least, eight former RadioShack locations are being converted into pure Sprint stores, the company said Tuesday.
It’s part of a move for the nation’s fourth largest mobile service provider to expand its retail presence by turning 350 RadioShack locations into Sprint stores.
“Sprint is converting approximately 350 of the best performing RadioShack stores across the country to full Sprint retail stores. Many of the eight new stores in Colorado are converted RadioShack stores. We will be adding one more new location, which is a new brick and mortar store,” said John Votava, a Sprint spokesman.
In 2015, Sprint to share space with the long-time electronics seller, which had just filed . At the time, Sprint into cobranded Sprint RadioShack stores.
But RadioShack continued to have troubles. In January, RadioShack creditors alleging Sprint used confidential data to open competing mobile stores near existing RadioShacks. And in March, again. At the time, Sprint said it signed a deal to turn several RadioShack locations into Sprint stores.
The eight Colorado stores include two in Denver, at 5305 E. Colfax Ave. and 1977 S. Federal Blvd. The other six stores include one each in Greeley, Thornton, Arvada, Fountain, Colorado Springs and Lakewood.
Sprint, which employs approximately 1,000 people in Colorado, has so much in the recent years that independent research firm RootMetrics named the company and Colorado Springs earlier this year.
The company said that the new Colorado locations are among 44 in its southwest region that are opening as Sprint stores. The company expects to in Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and West Texas by the end of the year.
