"Why would they buy a marginal retailer with poor footprint, when you could just lease stores yourself?" Because it's already assembled, at, in theory, lower t

"Why would they buy a marginal retailer with poor footprint, when you could just lease stores yourself?" Because it's already assembled, at, in theory, lower than market rates and won't take months or a year to assemble. Similar to why companies buy companies instead of building their own. At least in the area that I am in Radio Shack has decent retail locations.