Could Hiring a Financial Advisor Really Fix RadioShack Corporation (RSH)?

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Remember, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), for its part, managed to increase its own sales by 22% year over year last quarter, and it doesn’t even need to coax customers to walk through any brick-and-mortar doors to succeed. To the contrary, Amazon’s fanatical pursuit of improved efficiency, all in the name of offering lower prices, has enabled it to serve as the primary beneficiary of consumers’ recently adopted “showrooming” habits, thereby allowing it to achieve much of its revenue increases at the expense of traditional retailers like The Shack.

Foolish takeaway
Then again, RadioShack does still have some time and money to at least try to execute on its hopeful turnaround plans, and perhaps a financial advisor will be able to find a novel way to buy them more time to do so.

In the end, though, until RadioShack can show us some truly tangible signs of a sustained turnaround, it will remain a risky speculative bet that I’m unwilling to take.

Considering the retail space is in the midst of the biggest paradigm shift since mail order took off at the turn of last century, where else can you look for investing gains? Only those most forward-looking and capable companies will survive, and they’ll handsomely reward those investors who understand the landscape.

The article Could Hiring a Financial Advisor Really Fix RadioShack? originally appeared on Fool.com.

Fool contributor Steve Symington has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Amazon.com. The Motley Fool owns shares of Amazon.com and RadioShack.

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