Re: Today I learned Pier 1 was owned by Tandy
Allen Huffman via Coco <coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/[email protected]>
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> On Jun 23, 2025, at 7:13 AM, John Guin via Coco <[email protected]> wrote: > > From "the more you know" department: > > I never knew this but it came up in the AbortRetryFail blog The Tandy Corporation, Part 1 - by Bradford Morgan White<https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-tandy-corporation-part-1> I found this a little hard to follow - like any broad overview, some of the details are glossed over and there are a lot of naming/people/companies in play. Still, informative. > > Apparently, when Tandy was growing the 1960s, Pier 1 got started as a new company. > > And here are some more details: Pier 1 Imports - Wikipedia<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_1_Imports> > > Cheers, > John Wait, really? I know the brand Pier 1 got bought by some entity that also bought the Radio Shack brand, at some point — but had not heard of any connection before then. — A -- Coco mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco